Photograph, colour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
Collection
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Pool 2
ARTIST ROOMS 
Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Lent by Artist Rooms Foundation 2011
architecture
baths
building - non-specific
clothing and personal items
countries and continents
diving board
emotions, concepts and ideas
fence
formal qualities
natural phenomena
objects
palm
parasol
photographic
places
public and municipal
reflection
sequence
sports and games
sunshine
townscapes / man-made features
USA, California
weather
<p>This image was included in Ruscha’s artist’s book <span>Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass</span> 1968. This was Ruscha’s first colour photographic series. As the title indicates, the book includes nine photographs of pools and one of a broken glass tumbler, placed at the end almost like the punchline of an absurd visual joke. This series continues Ruscha’s project of documenting the Los Angeles landscape. All the pools are located at low-budget motels. These highly artificial leisure spaces can be seen as symbolic of Southern California’s ‘easy living’ culture.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2019</em></p>
paper print photograph colour
22 February 2013 – 22 May 2013
2013-05-22
22 February 2013 – 22 May 2013
2013-05-22
2013-02-22
Hatton Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
2013-02-22
ARTIST ROOMS 2013: Ed Ruscha
Loan-out
29 April 2017 – 29 April 2018
2018-04-29
29 April 2017 – 29 April 2018
2018-04-29
2017-04-29
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh, UK)
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
2017-04-29
ARTIST ROOMS Ed Ruscha
Collection based display
Pool #2
unconfirmed, image: 394 × 394 mm
unconfirmed, support: 610 × 610 mm
Frame: 580 × 580 × 45mm
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Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Lent by Artist Rooms Foundation 2011
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<p>This image was included in Ruscha’s artist’s book <i>Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass</i> 1968. This was Ruscha’s first colour photographic series. As the title indicates, the book includes nine photographs of pools and one of a broken glass tumbler, placed at the end almost like the punchline of an absurd visual joke. This series continues Ruscha’s project of documenting the Los Angeles landscape. All the pools are located at low-budget motels. These highly artificial leisure spaces can be seen as symbolic of Southern California’s ‘easy living’ culture.</p>
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architecture baths building - non-specific clothing and personal items countries and continents diving board emotions, concepts and ideas fence formal qualities natural phenomena objects palm parasol photographic places public and municipal reflection sequence sports and games sunshine townscapes / man-made features USA, California weather