Lisp

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The early 1970s were a prolific period for Ruscha. In addition to his activities in Europe, he continued to make prints in Los Angeles. During his 1969 residence at Tamarind, he had formed a working relationship with Jean Milant, one of the workshop’s printers, who had decided he wanted to open his own shop. With the encouragement of Tamarind’s June Wayne, a few loans, and a tip from Ruscha about an available property on Manhattan Place in Hollywood, Milant established Cirrus Editions and Cirrus Gallery. Unlike other workshops in the Los Angeles area, Cirrus made it a priority from the outset to print and publish editions with California artists. Ruscha made twenty editions at Cirrus between 1970 and 1974.

Text by Siri Engberg

Lisp

Ed Ruscha

Artist: Ed Ruscha (b.1937)
Title: Lisp
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1970
Sheet: 20 x 28 in : 50.8 x 71.1 cm on white Arches paper
Edition: No. 68 from the edition of 90, signed, dated and numbered by the artist lower left
Printer: David Trowbridge and Ed Hamilton for Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles, with collaboration and supervision by Jean Milant
Publisher: Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles, and Brooke Alexander Inc., New York
Literature: Engberg 43
Notes: Three colours printed in three runs from two aluminium plates and one stone: 1. Light Blue - plate; 2. Medium blue - stone; 3. Dark blue - plate
Reference: C16-18