Lisp
1968
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 150.2 x 139.1 cm (59 1/8 x 54 3/4 in.) framed: 153.99 x 143.19 x 6.35 cm (60 5/8 x 56 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Collectors Committee
Accession Number
2001.56.1
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...