A guarded white building with lit windows stands behind a high chain-link fence topped with barbed wire.

Paintings

The Old Trade School Building

2005

Medium
Acrylic and fabricated chalk on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 54 1/8 × 120 3/16 in. (137.5 × 305.3 cm)
Accession number
2005.136
Acquired
2005
Credit line
Gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President
Reproduction credit
© Ed Ruscha
Department
collection

About this work

Edward Ruscha, The Old Trade School Building, 2005. Acrylic and fabricated chalk on canvas, overall: 54 1/8 × 120 3/16 in. (137.5 × 305.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President 2005.136. © Ed Ruscha

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