Edward Ruscha

Save, Flagstaff, Arizona
1962

A black and white photograph of a mid-20th-century street scene with vintage cars parked and driving by. A prominent sign reads "SAVE" with gas prices listed below, indicating a gas station. The architecture and vehicles suggest a small American town setting from around the 1950s or 1960s.
A black and white photograph of a mid-20th-century street scene with vintage cars parked and driving by. A prominent sign reads "SAVE" with gas prices listed below, indicating a gas station. The architecture and vehicles suggest a small American town setting from around the 1950s or 1960s.

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Date
1962

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 5 × 7 1/16in. (12.7 × 17.9 cm) Image: 5 × 7 1/16in. (12.7 × 17.9 cm)

Accession number
2004.489

Series
Twentysix Gasoline Stations

Edition
Possibly 1/1

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Foundation, and Diane and Thomas Tuft

Rights and reproductions
© Ed Ruscha

API
artworks/21044

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