"I hitchhiked throughout the South in the early 1950's. Coming across a town in Tennessee called Sweetwater, I remember swimming in an unattended pool by the side of the road. Later, I went to art school in Los Angeles and studied Abstract Expresionism and painted pictures of towns I had hitchhiked through, like Dublin, Georgia; Vicksburg, Mississippi; and most memorable of all, Sweetwater, Tennessee."
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Ed Ruscha, Sweetwater, 1959, ink & oil on canvas, 60x48", inadvertently destroyed.
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I do like this image very much, and am so sorry that the original was destroyed. Thank you for sharing the reproduction with us.
ReplyDeleteI can see that it would have points of reference with your own work and ideas on image and text, and place.