Exhibition features works spanning the entirety of Ed Ruscha's six-decade career

ARTIST ROOMS: Ed Ruscha, the latest in the series of annual free displays in the dedicated ARTIST ROOMS gallery in Tate Modern’s Blavatnik building, opens to the public on 26 July 2019 and will run until Spring 2020. It will feature works spanning the entirety of Ruscha’s six-decade career, including large text-based paintings and his iconic photographic series. Also featured is a comprehensive display of Ruscha’s artist’s books, including Various Small Fires 1964 and Every Building on the Sunset Strip 1966, as well as some 40 works on paper gifted to Tate for ARTIST ROOMS by the artist following his 2015 promise to donate all future prints he makes to the national collection. This builds on the spectacular generosity of Ruscha’s gift of his painting The Music from the Balconies 1984 to the ARTIST ROOMS collection in 2009. American artist Ed Ruscha (b.1937) is well known for his depiction of isolated words and phrases, often superimp