There Never Was A Ranch.." — Vintage Western Comic Art Printed Cushion, Pop Art Style

About this object

A cushion that opens a conversation the moment someone sits down near it. The image — a blonde woman and a cowboy in a Stetson, mid-confrontation, mid-confession — is lifted straight from the visual language of 1950s American pulp Western comics. The speech bubble reads: "There never was a ranch.." And somehow, in that ellipsis, an entire relationship collapses. This is pop art as soft furnishing. The print is executed on heavyweight canvas with colour saturation that holds — deep denim blue ground, bold comic-ink outlines, flesh tones rendered in the flat, fearless palette of Lichtenstein's America. The contrast piped border and plump insert give it the structural confidence to hold its own against the dark tufted leather it's photographed against — and almost any interior that isn't afraid of a point of view. For the collector who understands that the best interiors have at least one object that makes guests stop and read.