Portfolio with complete text and 6 color screenprints on paper-backed wood veneer and Fabriano Classico glazed-finish watercolor papers, 1972. 511x686 mm; 20⅛x27 inches (sheets), full margins. Each color screenprint signed, dated and numbered 53/100 in pencil, lower center. Printed by Styria Studio, New York. Published by Multiples, Inc., New York and Los Angeles. Original raw linen-covered portfolio box with plastic cover encapsulating brownish-red soil. Engberg 60-65.
Siri Engberg described Ed Ruscha's Insects portfolio as "one of Ruscha's most masterfully illusionistic print projects." It incorporates encapsulated soil from the artist's elementary school in Oklahoma City.
