Hollywood with Observatory
1969
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in blue and black on calendered Rives wove paper
Dimensions
image: 2.9 x 74.2 cm (1 1/8 x 29 3/16 in.) sheet: 16.8 x 81.5 cm (6 5/8 x 32 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith
Accession Number
1984.34.759
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...