Study for Ice
Ed Ruscha
1961
- Medium
- Oil and pencil on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 27 × 30.4 cm (10 11/16 × 12 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
The drawing Study for Ice is one of the artist’s early iterations of a single-word composition, which has become a mainstay throughout his career. The articulation of the melting word is directly related to a photograph Ruscha made of an ice truck. The piece can clearly be understood as a precursor to his famous “liquid word” paintings, such as City from 1968.
