Blank Book

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Artist: Ed Ruscha
Date: 1963
Medium: Graphite, with frisket and stumping, on cream wove paper
Location: Art Institute of Chicago
Dimensions: 30.5 × 23.3 cm (12 1/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
Collection: Prints and Drawings
Culture: United States
Credit line: Adele and Willard Gidwitz Endowment

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