Ed Ruscha

About

From Wikipedia:

Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (/ruːˈʃeɪ/, roo-SHAY; born December 16, 1937) is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. He is also noted for creating several artist’s books. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California. […]

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Ed Ruscha designed the album art and typography for Paul McCartney’s “McCartney III” in 2020, followed by the cover of “McCartney III Imagined” in 2021 and the box set “McCartney I II III” in 2022. In 2023, he created the cover of The Beatles’ single “Now and Then.”

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I first met Ed Ruscha through my daughter, Stella, and since then have visited his studio quite a few times. He is a very easy going, humorous guy and ‘of course’ a very skilful painter. His treatments are ingenious and intriguing. Nancy asked Ed to paint a picture for my birthday which uses the phrase ‘For Life’ which is taken from the song ‘My Valentine’, which I wrote for her. It is a beautiful picture with the text in his usual deadpan signature style. The lettering font he uses reminds me of art classes I used to take as a teenager in the Liverpool Institute where we learned to write the alphabet in this style and I enjoyed it so much I even offered to do the lettering on one piece of George’s homework! I feel happy to know him and his family and hope you enjoy reading the essay we have put together for the website.

Paul McCartney – From Paul McCartney | News | Paintings On The Wall – Ed Ruscha, March 15, 2019

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