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It's Only Vanishing Cream by Ed Ruscha

It's Only Vanishing Cream

Ed Ruscha · 1973

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DETAILS
Artist
Ed Ruscha
Date
1973
Medium
Shellac on satin
Location
Art Institute of Chicago
Dimensions
91.4 × 101.6 cm (36 × 40 in.)
Collection
Contemporary Art
Culture
United States
Credit line
Partial purchase with funds provided by Brad Keywell; partial and promised gift of Edward and Danna Ruscha
ART MOVEMENTS
Postmodernism
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Ed Ruscha

Turned the American West into Pop art with his deadpan paintings of gas stations and the word 'OOF'

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