Eye
1969
Ed Ruscha (American, 1937-)
Not on View

A lithograph is a collaboration between an artist and an artisan printer. The artist uses a grease pencil or tusche, a waxy liquid, to draw on a stone, usually limestone, or a metal plate, commonly aluminum. The printer treats the metal or stone plate with various chemicals to indelibly bond the drawn image to the plate, and then wets it down with water. The greasy image on the plate rejects the water but accepts the grease-based ink that is rolled over it. Each color requires its own separate plate as it goes through this process. June Wayne, founder of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, describes the end result as “the kiss of an inked stone on a sheet of velvet-white paper.”

Details

  • Artist Name: Ed Ruscha (American, 1937-)
  • Title: Eye
  • Date: 1969
  • Medium: Lithograph on white Arches paper; torn and deckle edges
  • Dimensions: sheet: 17-1/8 x 24-1/8 in. (43.5 x 61.3 cm); Image: 7-3/4 x 15 in. (cm.)
  • Publisher: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc.
  • Printer: Ronald Glassman
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, Anonymous Gift
  • Accession Number: P.1972.08.018
  • Copyright: © 2012 Edward Ruscha

Object Information

Ooo: Early Prints by Ed Ruscha

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2006-09-22 to 2007-01-22

Additional Artwork by Artist

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Annie, Poured from Maple Syrup Ed Ruscha 1966
Carp Ed Ruscha 1969

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