Edward Ruscha was born on December 16, 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was brought up in Oklahoma. In 1956 Ruscha drove west from Oklahoma City with songwriter Mason Williams. At the time he was doing... Read full biography
Edward Ruscha was born on December 16, 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was brought up in Oklahoma. In 1956 Ruscha drove west from Oklahoma City with songwriter Mason Williams. At the time he was doing monosyllable word paintings, as well as the paintings of gas stations, sunsets and the Hollywood sign.... Read full biography
Edward Ruscha was born on December 16, 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was brought up in Oklahoma. In 1956 Ruscha drove west from Oklahoma City with songwriter Mason Williams. At the time he was doing monosyllable word paintings, as well as the paintings of gas stations, sunsets and the Hollywood sign. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles under Richard Rubin from 1956 through 1960. He served in the United States Navy in Los Angeles at about the same time. He married Danna Knego,... Read full biography
Edward Ruscha was born on December 16, 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was brought up in Oklahoma. In 1956 Ruscha drove west from Oklahoma City with songwriter Mason Williams. At the time he was doing monosyllable word paintings, as well as the paintings of gas stations, sunsets and the Hollywood sign. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles under Richard Rubin from 1956 through 1960. He served in the United States Navy in Los Angeles at about the same time. He married Danna Knego, and in 1968 their only son, Edward Joseph Ruscha V, was born. They called him Frenchy. In 1977, Ruscha and Danna were divorced, but ten years later they remarried. They live in a low-slung ranch house high in the Santa Monica Mountains. When their... Read full biography
Edward Ruscha was born on December 16, 1937 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was brought up in Oklahoma. In 1956 Ruscha drove west from Oklahoma City with songwriter Mason Williams. At the time he was doing monosyllable word paintings, as well as the paintings of gas stations, sunsets and the Hollywood sign. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles under Richard Rubin from 1956 through 1960. He served in the United States Navy in Los Angeles at about the same time. He married Danna Knego, and in 1968 their only son, Edward Joseph Ruscha V, was born. They called him Frenchy. In 1977, Ruscha and Danna were divorced, but ten years later they remarried. They live in a low-slung ranch house high in the Santa Monica Mountains. When their next door neighbors moved out, they bought that house, and remodeled the two houses to... Read full biography
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About Ed Ruscha: Books
Books & Publications (131)
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Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
2009
Respini, Eva
168 pages (color)
Art Metropole: The Top 100 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Scott, Kitty et al
137 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The American West
2005
Durham, Jimmie et al
175 pages (color)
Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Volume One: 1958-1970
2004
Bois & Hopps (essays)
0 pages (color)
Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape: Five Decades of Painting
2004
Hickey, Dave; Diane Moran
136 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Rowell & Butler
0 pages (color)
Ed Ruscha and Photography (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Wolf, Sylvia (ed)
250 pages (color)
Ed Ruscha
2003
Marshall, Richard D
272 pages (color)
Writers on Artists
2001
Byatt, A.S. (foreward)
352 pages (color)
Beauty and Islam
2001
Gonzales, V
0 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: An Institutional History in Pictures (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Siedell, Daniel A.
9 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
560 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press
1996
Brown, Kathan
287 pages (color)
The Dakis Joannou Collection
1996
Deitch, Jeffrey
302 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
The Paine Webber Art Collection
1995
Flam, Jack; Donald Marron
304 pages (color)
Views from Abroad European Perspectives on American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Fuchs, Rudi/Adam D Weinberg
127 pages (color)
Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990
1995
Hansen, Trudy (others)
248 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Between Reality and Abstraction California Art at the End of the Century (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Stein, Donna
64 pages (color)
Visions of America Landscape as Metaphor in the Late 20th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Friedman, Martin (et al)
256 pages (color)
Edward Ruscha Romance with Liquids/Paintings 1966-1969
1993
Bois, Yve-Alain
110 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Hand-Painted Pop American Art in Transition 1955-62 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ferguson, Russell (editor)
256 pages (color)
American Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Joachimides, Christos (others)
490 pages (color)
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
1993
Kostelanetz, Richard
246 pages
75 Works, 75 Years Collecting the Art of California (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Laguna Art Museum
139 pages (color)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection
1993
Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors)
414 pages (color)
Transforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Hough, Katherine
111 pages (color)
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
1992
Seitz, William C
250 pages (color)
West Coast Duchamp
1991
Clearwater, Bonnie (others)
128 pages
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Word As Image American Art 1960-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel
172 pages (color)
Edward Ruscha (Exhibition catalog)
1990
De Groot, Elbrig (others)
151 pages (color)
Learn to Read Art: Artists; Books (Art Gallery of Hamilton) (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Ehrenbert, et al
34 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
Pop Art A Continuing History
1990
Livingstone, Marco
271 pages (color)
High and Low Modern Art/Popular Culture (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Varnedoe, Kirk/Adam Gopnik
460 pages (color)
First Impressions Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Elizabeth
149 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
L A Pop in the Sixties (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Ayres, Anne/Jay Belloli
144 pages (color)
California Painters/New Work
1989
Hopkins, Henry
143 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Twentieth Century Watercolors
1988
Finch, Christopher
310 pages (color)
Edward Ruscha (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Hopkins, Henry/Fumio Nanjo
60 pages (color)
Inside the L A Artist
1988
Marrow, Marva
104 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Painting
1988
Read, Herbert
418 pages (color)
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art
1987
Cummings, Paul
176 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Stich, Sidra
280 pages (color)
America: Art and the West (Australian exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Adams, Celeste Marie
130 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings
1986
Rose Art Museum
147 pages (color)
Artists Observed
1986
Stein, Harvey
160 pages
Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts
290 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
Chouinard: An Art Vision Betrayed: A History of the Chouinard Art Institute
1985
Perine, Robert
260 pages (color)
The American West The Modern Vision
1984
Broder, Patricia Janis
345 pages (color)
Art of the States Works from a Santa Barbara Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1984
McDonald, Robert; Richard Vincent West
80 pages (color)
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980
1984
Watrous, James
334 pages (color)
California Museums The Los Angeles Times Book of
1984
Wilson, William
288 pages (color)
A Century of California Landscapes
1983
Gibson, Dunn & Critcher
52 pages (color)
Texas Images & Visions (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Goetzmann, William/B Reese
168 pages (color)
Prints A Collector's Guide
1983
Kaplan, Ellen
253 pages
World Art Trends
1983
Pradel, Jean-louise (editor)
200 pages (color)
The American Artist as Printmaker (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Walker, Barry
144 pages (color)
The Works of Edward Ruscha (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Hickey, Dave/Peter Plagens
182 pages (color)
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)