Edward Ruscha

Give Him Anything and He'll Sign It

1965

Black-and-white bird with a pencil for a tail and a pencil-tip beak pecking at the surface.
Black-and-white bird with a pencil for a tail and a pencil-tip beak pecking at the surface.

Edward Ruscha, Give Him Anything and He'll Sign It, 1965. Oil on canvas, overall (sight): 57 3/8 × 55 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (145.7 × 140.3 × 4.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Emily Fisher Landau 2024.228 2024.228. © Ed Ruscha

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Date
1965

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall (sight): 57 3/8 × 55 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (145.7 × 140.3 × 4.4 cm)

Accession number
2024.228

Credit line
Gift of Emily Fisher Landau 2024.228

Rights and reproductions
© Ed Ruscha

API
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