Edward Ruscha

SPAM

1961

A vintage "SPAM" container with bold thick text and a loaf of the product with slices surrounding it
A vintage "SPAM" container with bold thick text and a loaf of the product with slices surrounding it

Edward Ruscha, SPAM, 1961. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 14 × 9 15/16 in. (35.6 × 25.2 cm) Image: 13 1/2 × 10 7/16 in. (34.3 × 26.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Foundation, and Diane and Thomas Tuft 2004.564. © Ed Ruscha

Recto

Not on view

Date
1961

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 9 15/16 in. (35.6 × 25.2 cm) Image: 13 1/2 × 10 7/16 in. (34.3 × 26.5 cm)

Accession number
2004.564

Series
Product Still Lifes

Edition
Edition possibly 2

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Foundation, and Diane and Thomas Tuft

Rights and reproductions
© Ed Ruscha

API
artworks/21849




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