Business Cards Artist: Ed Ruscha (American, born 1937)
Artist: Billy Al Bengston (American, born 1934)

Medium

Artist's book, bound by knotted piece of leather, with 16 folios containing photo-mechanical reproductions, one gelatin silver print attached to cover with photo corners, and business cards of both artists stapled to final page

Dimensions

8 13/16 × 5 9/16 in. (22.4 × 14.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Henry S. Hacker, B.A. 1965

Accession Number

1991.122.8

Culture
Period

20th century

Classification
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Bibliography
  • Sequoia Miller and John Stuart Gordon, The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2015–16), 33, fig. 22
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Object/Work type

artists' books

Marks

paper=Thick wove watermark=None

Inscriptions

Signed in ink at LR corner of cover: Edward Ruscha. Signed in a different ink at lower C of cover: B.A.B.

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