Ed Ruscha alcançou o reconhecimento através de pinturas que incorporam palavras e frases e pela publicação dos muitos livros de fotografia, todos influenciados pela "inexpressiva" irreverência da Pop Art. [carece de fontes?] Nascido em 1937, em Omaha, Nebraska, Edward Ruscha foi criado em Oklahoma, nos Estados Unidos, desde 1941. By the time of Ed Ruscha’s inaugural solo exhibit at Los Angeles’ Ferus Gallery in 1963, the artist was receiving national attention for his unique contributions to Pop. Ed Ruscha’s 1963 oil painting Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, is among the artist’s most popular work of the 1960s.

Ed Ruscha’s oeuvre is incredibly diverse in its use of media, and includes painting, drawing, print, photography, and film, among other less categorical experiments such as artist’s books. The highly graphic, illustrational aesthetic, and often ironic language-based content of his work has become iconic of West Coast Pop art.