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Wingspan ~30mm
RWWA-2535 BOLD DNA: First 50 matches from 99.6 -100% for E. intermediata
Locality: Coastal SW Washington State at the edge of Willapa Bay geo:lat=46 37.273 geo:lon=-123 56.814
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Sharp-angled Carpet
wingspan ~29mm F# 1161
RWWA-1029 BOLD DNA:
A species level match has been made.
Locality: Coastal SW Washington State at the edge of Willapa Bay geo:lat=46 37.273 geo:lon=-123 56.814
La Brea, Powell
Sunset, Pierce
Wilshire, Grant
Geary, Wilshire
from Los Francisco San Angeles, 2001
Ed Ruscha
Portfolio of 7 colour soft-ground etchings
Words form a key component of much of Ruscha's art. In this series, street names such as 'Melrose', 'Sunset' and 'La Brea' evoke urban California and give meaning to the grids, tracks and complex intersections that might otherwise be read as minimalist compositions. Sharp angles and diagonal lines are a recurring feature of Ruscha's work, in which buildings, billboards and letters often recede dramatically, as if shot for the movies.*
From the exhibition
Ed Ruscha: roads and insects
(September 2023 – January 2024)
This display of prints by American artist Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) focused on his prevailing interest in the physical world around him.
At its centre was Insects, a portfolio of six colour screenprints depicting life-sized flies, ants and cockroaches, complete with shadows to give the illusion of three-dimensional critters resting, swarming or scuttling across flat surfaces.
Printed in 1972, the portfolio was displayed in full. It was acquired by the British Museum in 2023 as a gift from a private collector in memory of Paul Thomson to the American Friends of the British Museum. The display also included a portfolio of seven soft-ground etchings from 2001 titled Los Francisco San Angeles, in which Ruscha creates imaginary maps that intersect the principal roads of LA and San Francisco, and two prints from the artist's 2014 series of Rusty Signs, which appear to comment on the fading of the American Dream.
In 1956, aged just 18, Ruscha moved from Oklahoma City in the South Central US to Los Angeles, the West Coast city with which he is most closely associated and where he has been based ever since. The near 1,400-mile journey along Route 66 would become very familiar to him over years of travelling back and forth and inspire his first artist's book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations. Self-published in 1963, this was a cheaply printed paperback containing black-and-white photographs of the filling stations that punctuated the highway like 'cultural belches in the landscape' (Ruscha). Ever since those early days in LA, where he trained in commercial graphic design, roads, cars, gas stations, signs and billboard advertisements have occurred frequently in Ruscha's art across a variety of media including painting, printmaking, photography, drawing and film.
[*British Museum]
Taken in British Museum