Big Dipper over Desert
1982
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View on museum website →Medium
color aquatint on Somerset wove paper
Dimensions
image: 60 x 90.5 cm (23 5/8 x 35 5/8 in.) sheet: 76.2 x 110.8 cm (30 x 43 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1998.40.395
About the Artist
Ed Ruscha
Edward Ruscha, born Edward Joseph Ruscha IV on December 16, 1937, in Omaha, Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma City after his family relocated there in 1941. From a young age, he was drawn to cartooning, supported by his mother, and his early artistic spark was nurtured amid the American Midwest before he moved to Los Angeles in 1956. There, he enrolled at the Chouinard Art Institute (now California In...