Lithograph on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-ruscha-1882" aria-label="More by Edward Ruscha" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edward Ruscha</a>
Hollywood
Purchased 1982
abstraction
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
hill
landscape
Los Angeles, Hollywood
non-representational
places
signage
text
townscapes / man-made features
USA, California
paper print lithograph
13 November 2010 – 30 April 2011
2011-04-30
13 November 2010 – 30 April 2011
2011-04-30
2010-11-13
Wolverhampton Art Gallery (Wolverhampton, UK)
http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk
2010-11-13
Film POP
Loan-out
Hollywood
image: 105 × 430 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ruscha-hollywood-p07716" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07716</span></a> <b>Hollywood</b> 1969
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<br/>Lithograph 4 1/8 × 17 (105 × 430) on paper 6 3/4 × 20 (173 × 508), printed at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, published by the artist and Tamarind in an edition of 18
<br/>Inscribed ‘E Ruscha 1969’ b.r. and ‘2/18’; impressed with the printer's stamp<br/>Purchased at Sotheby's, Los Angeles (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/>From the early 1960s to about 1970 Ruscha used words as images and made <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of West Coast architecture and views. In this work these two strands are combined in that the subject is the famous sign on the hills above Hollywood composed of bill-board size letters propped up on the horizon line. The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> is related to a series of drawings of the same subject made in 1968–9. The extreme horizontal format is characteristic of Ruscha's work and is related to certain American styles of presentation such as cinemascope and huge roadside poster boards as well as being natural to the broad <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/perspective" title="Glossary definition for 'Perspective'"><span>perspectives</span></a> of West Coast landscape. Ruscha was invited to work at Tamarind <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>Lithography</span></a> Workshop in 1969; June Wayne, Tamarind's Director, had established a scheme of Fellowships under which artists were paid to work there for two months and the introduction of new artists was a vital part of her training programme for printers.
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<br/>This entry has been approved by the artist.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-13T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents hill landscape Los Angeles, Hollywood non-representational places signage text townscapes / man-made features USA, California