Robert Rauschenberg

(b Port Arthur, TX, 22 Oct 1925)

Estate 1963
 Training and early work, to 1953

Josef ALBERS Merce Cunningham

Variation on Homage
to the Square 1961
oil on aluminium
20 x 20 in / 50.8 x 50.8 cm

John Cage
 Untitled [horizontal black painting], c. 1953

Untitled (Red Painting), ca. 1953. Oil, fabric, and

newspaper on canvas, with wood, 79 x 33 1/8 inches.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Black Painting. Detail. | 1951-1952
Female Figure (Blueprint)
(2670×910 mm, c. 1949
Automobile Tire Print (ink on paper mounted on canvas, 420×6720 mm, 1951; artist’s col.,
 Combine paintings and transfer drawings, 1954–61

Merz 163, 1920

Charlene 1954
 Bed (1955
oil and pencil on pillow,
quilt, and sheet on
wooden supports
6' 3 1/4" x 31 1/2" x 8"
(191.1 x 80 x 20.3 cm)

Odalisque (1955–8
 Pilgrim (1960

Black Market (1961

1949, Quiet House—Black Mountain

34 Drawings for
‘Dante’s Inferno’
(1959–60; New York,
MOMA).
 Screenprinted paintings and installations, 1962–70

Estate (1963; Philadelphia,

PA, Mus

Robert Rauschenberg with Carolyn Brown and Alex Hay Pelican 1963
Oracle (1965

Soundings (2.44×10.97×1.37 m, 1968

 Works after 1970

Arte Povera:
Piero Manzoni Artist Shit 1961
Reynolds Wrap (Cardboard), 1971
Cardboard/plywood
79 x 40 x 9 inches
Lure (Hoarfrost), 1975
Granite
47 x 42 inches
 Tibetan Garden
Song 1986
Mixed media sculpture:
Chinese cello, chrome
washtub, Chinese
scrollmaker's brush
43" x 18 1/4" diameter

Junk as beauty: a giant crumpled rusty sign

from Rauschenberg's "Gluts" series.
 Robert Rauschenberg,
Untitled, 1974.
Embossed paper,
solvent transfer, and
watercolor on
cheesecloth, 50 1/2 x 24
3/16 inches. Solomon R.
Guggenheim
Robert Rauschenberg, Yellow Body, 1968. Solvent transfer on paper with pencil,
watercolor, gouache, and wash, 22 1/2 x 30 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum
Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled, 1952. Transfer on paper with gouache, watercolor,
crayon, pencil, and cut paper, 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum
 Robert Rauschenberg. Untitled. c. 1953. Wooden box with lid and removable balsa
wood-and-fabric cube, Box with lid 7 1/8 x 7 1/8 x 7 1/8" (18 x 18 x 18 cm), cube 5 5/8 x
5 5/8 x 5 5/8" (14.2 x 14.2 x 14.2 cm) MoMA
 Robert Rauschenberg. First Landing Jump. 1961. Combine painting: cloth, metal,
leather, electric fixture, cable, and oil paint on composition board, with automobile tire
and wooden plank, 7' 5 1/8" x 6' x 8 7/8" (226.3 x 182.8 x 22.5 cm) MoMA
Untitled, 1963. Oil, silkscreened
ink, metal, and plastic on canvas,
82 x 48 x 6 1/4 inches. Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum
Albino cactus (scale) 1977 ink transfer on silk, synthetic polymer paint on composition
board, mirrorized synthetic polymer film, electric light, wood and rubber tyre88.7 (h) x
442.1 (w) x 122.0 (d) cm national gallery of australia
Untitled Combine (Man with White
Shoes), 1955
Combine: oil, newspaper,
photographs, postcard, fabric,
printed reproductions, graphite on
paper, stickers, found painting,
mirror, shoes and socks on wood
structure with stuffed rooster
86 1/2 x 37 x 26 1/4 in. (219.7 x 94 x
66.7 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles
 Interview, 1955
Combine: oil, fabric, photographs,
found painting, found drawing,
lace, wood, envelope, found letter,
printed reproduction, toweling,
and newspaper on wood structure
with brick, string, fork, softball,
nail, metal hinges and wood door.
With oil, fabric, printed
reproductions and newspaper on
canvas attached to wooden
structure.
72 3/4 x 49 1/4 x 25 in. (184.8 x
125.1 x 63.5 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles
Gift for Apollo, 1959
Combine: oil, pant
fragments, necktie, wood,
fabric, newspaper, printed
reproductions on wood with
metal bucket, metal chain,
door knob, L brackets, metal
washer, nail and rubber
wheels with metal spokes
43 3/4 x 29 1/2 x 41 in.
(111.1 x 74.9 x 104.1 cm)
The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles
 Inlet, 1959
Combine: oil, newspaper, paper,
wood, metal, fabric, pant leg,
postcard, zipper, wire hanger,
paper clip, can lids, stuffed bird,
toy pistol, light socket, conduit,
compass, furniture wheel, and
corkscrew on canvas
84 1/2 x 48 x 5 in. (214.6 x 121.9
x 12.7 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles