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

June 23–Sept 26, 2004

Abstract painting of a gas station with red and white structures against a blue background with yellow rays.
Abstract painting of a gas station with red and white structures against a blue background with yellow rays.

Edward Ruscha, Standard Study #2, 1962. Opaque watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paper, sheet: 5 3/8 × 10 1/8 in. (13.7 × 25.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President 2005.64. © Ed Ruscha

Cotton puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha was curated by Margit Rowell.



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