Asked in an interview about the unusually long and skinny format of paintings like this one from the late 1970s, Ruscha remarked, "I'm a victim of the horizontal line and the landscape." "I guess maybe I'm trying to put more time and mileage between one end and the other," he added. In this example the artist depicts the kind of luminous sunset he encountered during his cross-country road trips between Los Angeles and Oklahoma City. Barely visible within the panoramic vista is the painting's evocative title, its diminutive scale seemingly at odds with its weighty subject.
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