On View
Not on viewObject number2009.58
Brews
Artist
Ed Ruscha
(American, 1937-)
Date1970
Mediumscreenprint
Dimensionssheet: 23 × 32 in. (58.4 × 81.3 cm)
image: 18 × 27 in. (45.7 × 68.6 cm)
mat: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
image: 18 × 27 in. (45.7 × 68.6 cm)
mat: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).
Label TextCalifornia-based Ed Ruscha made the screenprint Brews near the end of a two-year period during which he painted various “liquid word” images. In this print, the word becomes more than just an abstract signifier as the lettering appears to be traced in dripped beer foam.
