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Ed Ruscha's Painted Words

Pop Art master Ed Ruscha has never been hotter, with an astonishing 50-year retrospective in London and exhibit interpreting Kerouac’s On the Road. VIEW OUR GALLERY.

Published Oct. 29 2009 7:26AM EDT

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---oof_bbtprs — Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---oof_ynfosu — Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York © Ed Ruscha 2009
Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---standard-station_qxzni8 — Courtesy Private Collection © Ed Ruscha 2009
Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---the-old-tech-chem-building_q0b5j3 — Courtesy The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica © Ed Ruscha 2009
Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---the-mountain_advm5f — Courtesy Allison and Warren Kanders © Ed Ruscha 2009
Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---large-trademark-with-eight-spotlights_nk9krf — Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art, New York © Ed Ruscha 2009
Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---back-of-hollywood_ftdjnz — Courtesy Collection of Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon © Ed Ruscha 2009
Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---untitled_rlox8j — Courtesy of James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles © Ed Ruscha 2009
Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---talk-radio_fxb2x9 — Courtesy the collection of Joe Goode and Hiromi Katayama © Ed Ruscha 2009
Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---securing-the-last-letter_esbb2e — Courtesy Collection of Emily Fisher Landau, New York © Ed Ruscha 2009
Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---its-only-vanishing-cream_icdoxm — Courtesy the artist © Ed Ruscha 2009
Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---annie_xe1axj — Courtesy Private Collection © Ed Ruscha 2009
Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---hayword---la-museum-on-fire_p1f2pu — Courtesy Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution © Ed Ruscha 2009
Ed Ruscha

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---gagosian-4_pgvzxa — Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---gagosian-3_pwzudo — Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---gagosian-6_vonzlt — Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---gagosian-7_x3wmwl — Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---gagosian-5_elmutz — Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---gagosian-2_xpfbe6 — Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

galleries/2009/10/29/ed-ruscha-s-painted-words/ed-ruscha---gagosian-1_duqzpp — Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery