Swarm of Red Ants from Insects
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Edward Ruscha American, born 1937. Swarm of Red Ants from Insects, 1972. Screenprint on paper, sheet: 20 x 27 in. (50.8 x 68.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, National Endowment for the Arts and Bristol-Myers Fund, 72.119. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 72.119_bw.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Swarm of Red Ants from Insects
Date
1972
Medium
Screenprint on paper
Classification
Dimensions
sheet: 20 x 27 in. (50.8 x 68.6 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower left in pencil: "E. Ruscha"
Credit Line
National Endowment for the Arts and Bristol-Myers Fund
Accession Number
72.119
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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This screen print is from a larger series of works by the artist, which includes in total 6 silkscreen prints of insects. When all the prints are packaged together, they are placed in a linen box with a plastic cover. Inside the plastic cover is dirt from the artist, Edward Ruscha's, elementary school playground in Oklahoma. Ruscha favors the United States, and its landscape, as the subject of his works. In the larger context of the David Levine exhibition, this work can be viewed as a comment on swarms or crowds of people.
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