Pico and Sepulveda
2001
A quintessential Ed Ruscha screenprint featuring his signature typographic language, with the Los Angeles street names 'Pico' and 'Sepulveda' rendered in loose, cursive script against a speckled yellow-to-white gradient field of black and yellow dots. The composition evokes both the urban landscape of Los Angeles and Ruscha's enduring fascination with language as visual element. Edition 69 from a total run of 70, this is a rare and intimate print from one of America's most celebrated conceptual artists. Signed and dated by the artist lower right: Ed Ruscha 2001.
- Medium
- Screenprint on paper
- Dimensions
- Edition
- 69 of 70
- Signed
- Yes
Notes
Framed dimensions: 19½ x 29 inches. Location within property: Lounge. Appraisal report item #35, page 44 of 65. Client: Brian D. Stevens. Report type: Retail Replacement Value for Insurance Inventory Purposes.
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Lawrence Weiner
American · b. 1942
Weiner similarly elevated language and text into pure visual and conceptual form, placing words directly on surfaces with a stripped down aesthetic that mirrors Ruscha's treatment of type as both image and idea in this screenprint.
Jenny Holzer
American · b. 1950
Holzer shares Ruscha's core strategy of presenting plain language as visually charged conceptual art, using text drawn from everyday urban and cultural life to create works where words carry both literal meaning and formal graphic weight.
Christopher Wool
American · b. 1955
Wool's large scale text based works on paper and canvas share the same urban American sensibility and conceptual use of letterforms as graphic elements, treating words as abstract visual units against spare atmospheric backgrounds much like this Pico and Sepulveda screenprint.
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