Ed Ruscha, Give Him Anything and He’ll Sign it, 1965. Oil on canvas, 57-1⁄2 x 55-1⁄4 inches

Ed Ruscha, Give Him Anything and He'll Sign it, 1965. Oil on canvas, 57 1⁄2 x 55 1⁄4 inches
Promised gift of Emily Fisher Landau P.2010.257

LEGACY

Selections from Emily Fisher Landau’s
Gift to the Whitney Museum of American Art

June 12 – November 13, 2011

Artists included in the exhibition:
Ricci Albenda, Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, John Beerman, Forest Bess, Nayland Blake, James Brown, Peter Cain, Greg Colson, Gregory Crewdson, Lynn Davis, Willem de Kooning, Burgoyne Diller, John Dugdale, Carroll Dunham, William Eggleston, Barbara Ess, Eric Fischl, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, April Gornik, Rodney Graham, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Peter Hujar, Michael Hurson, Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, Cletus Johnson, Jon Kessler, Win Knowlton, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, Annette Lemieux, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Agnes Martin, John McLaughlin, Daniel Oates, Tom Otterness, Martin Puryear, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Rothenberg, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Seward, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Mark Tansey, Al Taylor, Cy Twombly, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, Steve Wolfe, Jamie Wyeth and Lisa Yuskavage.

See the book: Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection. Published by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011

Exhibition checklist (PDF)