, by 1968; to Henri Gallery, Washington D.C., by 1968; to Felix Landau Gallery, Los
DC, 1987-1988, no cat. 1993 Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings, Los
Angeles, 1977; gift to NGA, 1990 Associated Names Townsend, William Townsend
Ed Ruscha’s initial interest in art as a child in Oklahoma City, where his family moved in 1942 was nurtured by a neighbor who was a cartoonist. Ruscha enrolled in his first painting class with portrait painter Richard Goetz in 1948 and continued to study art in high school, simultaneously developing an interest in Dada and in the commercial printing process.
Planning to study commercial art, he drove to Los Angeles the summer after graduation
This exhibition presents some 50 bronze sculptures and related works, dating from the fourth century BC to the first century AD. They span the Hellenistic period when the art and culture of Greece spread throughout the Mediterranean and lands once conquered by Alexander the Great.
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence.
of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois; Los
, no. 072 Artwork history & notes Artwork History Provenance Gemini G.E.L., Los
Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 343. 1978 Field, Richard
G.E.L. 2008 Artwork history & notes Artwork History Provenance Gemini G.E.L., Los
of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois; Los
