Three Sheets with Castor Oil, 1973

  • Edward Ruscha, American, born 1937

Gunpowder and castor oil on cream wove paper

  • Image: 11 1/2 × 29 inches (29.2 × 73.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Estate of Addison Franklin Page

1999.61

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed and dated, in pencil, lower left: E. Ruscha 1973

Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: "3 SHEETS WITH CASTOR OIL STAINS" Inscribed, verso, lower right: D-140

1999-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Edward Ruscha, Three Sheets with Castor Oil, 1973, gunpowder and castor oil on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Estate of Addison Franklin Page, 1999.61.