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An accordion folded book of black and white photographs.

The accordion folded book of black and white photographs is bound in a white paper cover. The book is a series of black and white photographs printed along the sides of the pages. The street is represented by a white space separating the photographs in the middle, the names of buildings and intersections are printed on the white strip. The book must be turned around to view the opposite side in the proper orientation.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M24192
People
Edward Ruscha, American (Omaha, NE born 1937)
Title
Every Building on the Sunset Strip
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Sunset Strip
Classification
Prints
Work Type
artist's book
Date
1966
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/191266

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Photolithograph
Dimensions
cover: 18.1 x 14.2 cm (7 1/8 x 5 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: bottom of slip case, blue ballpoint ink, handwritten, signed, in artist's hand: Ed Ruscha

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, September 20, 1999.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
2nd
Standard Reference Number
E. B4

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Ed Ruscha
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
M24192
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), pp. 82-83, ill.
  • Jennifer Quick, Back to the Drawing Board: Ed Ruscha, Art, and Design in the 1960s, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2022), pp. 88-89, fig. 62, ill. (color)

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