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ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)

Lot 26
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Lot 26 | ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
ED RUSCHA (B. 1937)
Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half
signed, titled and dated '"STANDARD STATION, 10¢ WESTERN BEING TORN IN HALF" 1964 Edward J. Ruscha' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
65 x 121 ½ in. (165.1 x 308.6 cm.)
Painted in 1964.




Provenance

Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Factor, Los Angeles
James J. Meeker, Fort Worth, December 1970
Acquired by the exchange of Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas with the above by the present owner, November 1976



Literature

N. Marmer, “Reviews: Edward Ruscha, Ferus Gallery," Artforum, vol. 3 no. 3, December 1964, p. 12.
“Artists: Assemblage at the Frontier, Pop Goes the West Coast,” Time, vol. 86, no. 16, 15 October 1965, p. 108 (illustrated).
“Sculptured House for a Collecting Family,” House Beautiful, April 1967, p. 154 (illustrated).
W. Wilson, “Patrons of Pop,” Los Angeles Times West Magazine, 7 December 1969, p. 19 (illustrated).
Paintings, Drawings and Other Works by Edward Ruscha, exh. cat., Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1976, p. 6 (titled Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas (Day)).
L. Wenger, “California Visions,” New West, vol. 1, no. 13, 11 October 1976, pp. 136-137 (illustrated; titled and dated Standard Station with 10¢ Western, 1963).
O. Friedrich, “American Renewal: To Reform the System,” Time, vol. 117, no. 8, 23 February 1981, p. 39 (illustrated).
K. Larson, “Billboards Against the Sunset,” New York Magazine, 26 July 1982, p. 60.
The Works of Edward Ruscha, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1982, pp. 6 and 31 (illustrated).
John Baldessari, exh. cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990, pp. 28-29 (illustrated).
A. Skolnick, ed., Paintings of California, New York, 1993, p. 23 (illustrated; titled and dated Standard Station with 10¢ Western, 1963).
Edward Ruscha: Romance with Liquids, Paintings 1966-1969, exh. cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, 1993, p. 100 (illustrated).
“Driven to Inspiration,” Los Angeles Times, 28 March 1993, p. E2 (illustrated; titled and dated Standard Station with 10¢ Western, 1963).
N. Moure, California Art: 450 Years of Painting and Other Media, Glendale, 1998, pp. 432 and 435, fig. 32-2 (illustrated).
C. Meeks, “Honorary Degree to Artist Ed Ruscha,” Cal Arts Current, vol. 11, no. 3, June 1999, n.p. (illustrated).
A. Schwartz, ed., Leave Any Information At The Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages, Cambridge and London, 2002, pp. 25 and 223.
R. D. Marshall, Ed Ruscha, London and New York, 2003, pp. 4-5, 10, 38-39 and 211 (illustrated).
R. Dean and P. Poncy, eds., Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Volume One: 1958-1970, New York, 2003, pp. 120-124, no. P1964.04 (illustrated).
A. Schwartz, Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles, Cambridge and London, 2011, p. 100.
C. Tutwiler, Ed Ruscha, Vik Muniz and the Car Culture of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 2011, p. 22 (illustrated).
Ed Ruscha and the Great American West, exh. cat., Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 2016, pp. 14-15, fig. 5 (illustrated).
Once Upon a Time...The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, exh. cat., Denver Art Museum, 2017, p. 246 (illustrated).
L. Bradnock, “Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles,” Tate Papers, no. 32, Autumn 2019, digital (illustrated).
“Ed Ruscha / Now Then,” Apollo Magazine, 31 August 2023, digital (illustrated).
P. Plagens, “'Ed Ruscha / Now Then’ Review: Iconic Meets Ironic,” Wall Street Journal, 11 September 2023 (illustrated).
V. Esposito, “Ed Ruscha: Moma offers pop artist’s biggest exhibition to date,” The Guardian, 15 September 2023, digital (illustrated).
A. Budick, “Ed Ruscha, MoMA review – from explosive breakthrough to fizzling despair,” Financial Times, 20 September 2023, digital (illustrated).
C. Voon, “MoMA to stage major Ed Ruscha retrospective, spanning his text paintings to the infamous Chocolate Room,” The Art Newspaper, 19 October 2022, digital (illustrated).
H. Halle, “Ed Ruscha’s Poetry of the American Experience,” Art & Object, 24 October 2023, digital (illustrated).
H. Halle, “An Ed Ruscha Retrospective at MoMA Presents a Master of Wordplay and Trompe L’Oeil,” ARTnews, 2 November 2023, digital (illustrated).
P. Kennicott, “Is Ed Ruscha secretly painting American history? Or recycling memes?,” Washington Post, 3 November 2023, digital (illustrated).
S. Tallman, “Ed Ruscha Bigger than Actual Size,” New York Review of Books, 23 November 2023, digital (illustrated).
J. Quick, “The Pull of Design: Notes on the Exhibition Ed Ruscha / Now Then,” Yale University Press, 28 November 2023, digital.
T. de Monchaux and M. Krotov, "This, This, This and This: Ed Ruscha and his buildings,” n+1 Magazine, 22 January 2024, digital.
C. Knight, “Review: Ed Ruscha show wowed in New York. Why it’s even better in L.A.,” Los Angeles Times, 7 April 2024, digital (illustrated).
J. Griffin, “Way Out West,” Apollo Magazine, vol. CC, no. 732, July-August 2024, p. 9 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Los Angeles, Ferus Gallery, Edward Ruscha, October-November 1964.
IX Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and Waltham, Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Environment USA: 1957-1967, September 1967-March 1968, n.p., pl. G (illustrated).
Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Contemporary American Art, Los Angeles, from a Fort Worth-Dallas Collection, January-February 1972, no. 66.
Fort Worth Art Museum, Twentieth Century Art From Fort Worth Dallas Collections, September-October 1974, n.p. (illustrated; titled and dated Standard Station, 1963).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institute, National Collection of Fine Arts, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, September 1976-September 1977, p. 158, no. 221 (illustrated; titled and dated Standard Station with 10¢ Western, 1963).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, October 1977-September 2023 (extended loan).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Masterworks from Fort Worth Collections: A Centennial Exhibition, April-June 1992, p. 69 (illustrated).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Ed Ruscha, July-September 2001, pp. 34-35 and 165 (illustrated).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Ed Ruscha: Road Tested, January-April 2011, pp. 60-61 and 116, no. 20 (illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ed Ruscha / Now Then, September 2023-October 2024, pp. 14, 102, 104-105, 154-155, 274 and 316 (illustrated).
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