
Oxford, Beverly, Western
Two bold, street names — Oxford, Beverly, Western — are rendered in Ed Ruscha's signature cool, detached typography across a diptych lithograph, evoking the grid-like anonymity of Los Angeles's urban landscape. The stark, matter-of-fact presentation of ordinary street names transforms mundane civic language into a quiet meditation on place, identity, and the poetic potential embedded in everyday signage.
- Medium
- Diptych lithograph, on thick wove paper, the full sheets,
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
January 22, 2015
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