Edward Ruscha

Motor
1970

A grayscale artwork depicting a series of paper strips and loops arranged across a textured surface, creating an illusion of three-dimensionality. The image has a signature and date in the lower left corner.

A grayscale artwork depicting a series of paper strips and loops arranged across a textured surface, creating an illusion of three-dimensionality. The image has a signature and date in the lower left corner.

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Date
1970

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Gunpowder and pastel on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 23 1/8 × 29 1/16in. (58.7 × 73.8 cm) Image: 21 3/8 × 27 3/8in. (54.3 × 69.5 cm)

Accession number
77.78

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation - Drawing Fund

Rights and reproductions
© Ed Ruscha

API
artworks/887

Exhibitions

Cotton puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha

June 23–Sept 26, 2004

Edward Ruscha
563 works in the collection

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