© Edward J. Ruscha IV
Currently not on view
Every Building on the Sunset Strip,
1966
Ed Ruscha, born 1937, Omaha, NE; active Los Angeles, CA
Printed by Dick de Ruscha
Published by Ed Ruscha, born 1937, Omaha, NE; active Los Angeles, CA
Printed by Dick de Ruscha
Published by Ed Ruscha, born 1937, Omaha, NE; active Los Angeles, CA
1997-90
More Context
Special Exhibition
Ruscha’s <em>Every Building on the Sunset Strip</em> is a photographic collage of a mile and a half of Sunset Boulevard. The street was an important commercial site popular for cruising by automobile and well known for its vibrant nightlife. To take the photographs, Ruscha drove down the road in a pickup truck. In the bed was an automated camera set to take shots at regular intervals. The accordion foldout book is 25 feet long when fully open and shows both sides of the street.
Information
Title
Every Building on the Sunset Strip
Dates
1966
Maker
Medium
Paperback book illustrated with offset lithography
Dimensions
closed: 18.1 × 14.4 × 1.3 cm (7 1/8 × 5 11/16 × 1/2 in.)
open: 18.1 × 716 cm (7 1/8 × 281 7/8 in.)
Slip case: 18.6 × 14.9 × 1.6 cm (7 5/16 × 5 7/8 × 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Alexander D. Stuart, Class of 1972
Object Number
1997-90
Place Depicted
North America, United States, Los Angeles
Inscription
Signed on slipcase in pen and black ink, bottom: Ed Ruscha
Reference Numbers
Engberg B4
Culture
Materials
Techniques
Subject
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1997," in "A Window into Collecting American Folk Art: The Edward Duff Balken Collection at Princeton," special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 57, no. 1/2 (1998): p. 164-208., p. 187
- Joel Smith, "More than One: Sources of Serialism," in "More than One: Photographs in Sequence," special issue, Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 67 (2008): 8–29., p. 13, fig. 11
- Katherine A. Bussard, Alison Fisher, and Greg Foster-Rice, The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980 (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014),
