Pine Setting, 1988
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 75 inches
Artist Quotes:
“When you’re on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it’s very much like my paintings.”
“I’m interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn’t deserve being glorified. Something that’s forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.”
“I get a lot of information out on the road that I use in my studio. I keep a note pad in the car, and sometimes I write things down or make drawings when I’m driving.“
Additional Links:
CBS Sunday Morning artist interview about Ruscha’s relationship to landscape
Artist interview about the road and how it shaped his vision of the West
California Landscape into Abstraction Research 