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Ed Ruscha Station , 2003
Acrylic on canvas, 38½ × 72 in. Collection of Stavros Merjos and Honor Fraser
In 1963, Ruscha produced his first artist’s book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations , which reproduced a series of banal photographs taken while driving on Route 66. Since then, the gasoline station—usually bearing the Standard banner and seen from a radically foreshortened perspective— has become one of the artist’s most iconic images. This work combines the sharp silhouette of the roof with a hazy rust-colored sky, transforming a ubiquitous symbol of the everyday landscape into an ominous scene under the threat of combustion. —HJ
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