SHIP
- Printer
- Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded 1970, Los Angeles, California, founded 1960; Albuquerque, New Mexico, from 1970
- Publisher
- Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded 1970, Los Angeles, California, founded 1960; Albuquerque, New Mexico, from 1970
- Date
- 1986
- Material
- Lithograph
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 45 in. × 33 9/16 in. (114.3 × 85.2 cm)
framed: 52 1/2 × 41 5/16 in. (133.4 × 104.9 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons; and funds given by the Marian Cronheim Trust for Prints and Drawings, Museum Purchase, Friends Endowment Fund, The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund, and the Eliza McMillan Purchase Fund
- Rights
- © Ed Ruscha
- Object Number
- 777:2020
NOTES
A ship emerges over the horizon—or is it disappearing into the mist? Ed Ruscha plays up the ambiguity of this lithograph to confuse the question of movement and directionality in the looming shape. As in much of his work, here Ruscha isolates a form and, by stripping it down, engages with the mythologizing built up around certain symbols. A ship, for example, could indicate military and economic superiority at sea that spurred both connection and exploitation across otherwise unsurpassable distances.
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