Dream On: Ed Ruscha's Evocative Mattress Art

Who: Back in 1956, while driving a 1950 Ford from Oklahoma to Los Angeles with his childhood friend musician Mason Williams, artist Ed Ruscha was fascinated by the sights – mountains, billboards, diners, petrol stations – he saw along Route 66. His first job after college was designing layouts for an advertising agency, and the tendency to include typography and words in his work (often phrases overheard on the street) has remained a fixture throughout his…