Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - )
Nationality: American
Movement: Pop Art
Media: Painting
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Biography:
After studying at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Black Mountain College in North Carolina, Robert Rauscenberg moved to Paris in 1948 to train at the Academie Julien. Early in his career, Rauschenberg collaborated with composer John Cage in a piece called Happenings. He then evolved from collages to paintings, working with a sole color, normally black, white, or red. This approach changed drastically in the 1950’s when Rauschenberg began to create controversial pictures that used unusual colors and a range of found junkyard objects.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Robert Rauschenberg, Kip-Up, 1964
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Robert Rauschenberg, Sack, 1969
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Robert Rauschenberg, Breakthrough II, 1965
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Robert Rauschenberg, Brake, 1969
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Robert Rauschenberg, Visitation II, 1965
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Robert Rauschenberg, (Unidentified image), 20th century
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Robert Rauschenberg, Storyline II , second plate from the series Reel B + C, 1968
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Robert Rauschenberg, Storyline III , third plate from the series Reel B + C, 1968
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Robert Rauschenberg, Storyline I , first plate from the series Reel B + C, 1968
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Robert Rauschenberg, Flower Re-Run , fifth plate from the series Reel B + C, 1968
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Robert Rauschenberg, Still , sixth plate from the series Reel B + C, 1968
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Robert Rauschenberg, Advertisement for Stoned Moon series, 1969
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Robert Rauschenberg, Love-Zone , fourth plate from the series Reel B + C, 1968
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Robert Rauschenberg, untitled, plate on p. 114 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Robert Rauschenberg, untitled, plate on p. 115 in the book, 1¢ Life ([Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964]), 1964
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Robert Rauschenberg - Bed 1955 Combine painting: oi The Museum of Modern Art American
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Robert Rauschenberg - Factum I 1957 Combine The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Robert Rauschenberg - Untitled c. 1953 wooden box with lid The Museum of Modern Art American
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Robert Rauschenberg - Factum II 1957 combine painting: oi The Museum of Modern Art American
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Robert Rauschenberg - Gloria 1956 oil and paper collag Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Robert Rauschenberg - Talisman 1958 oil, paper, wood, gl Des Moines Art Center American
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Robert Rauschenberg - Tracer 1963 oil and silkscreen o The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art American
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Robert Rauschenberg - Overcast III 1963 oil on canvas, silks High Museum of Art American
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Robert Rauschenberg - Creek 1964 screen print in oil The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Robert Rauschenberg - Migration 1959 combine painting The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art American
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Robert Rauschenberg - #71 Features from Currents 1970 silkscreen Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
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Robert Rauschenberg - #62 Features from Currents 1970 silkscreen Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
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Robert Rauschenberg - First Landing Jump 1961 combine painting: cl The Museum of Modern Art American
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Robert Rauschenberg - Untitled from Peace Portfolio 1972 silkscreen Museum of Art and Science Brevard American
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Robert Rauschenberg - Untitled (Asheville Citizen) c. 1952 oil and newspaper on The Museum of Modern Art American
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Robert Rauschenberg - Copperhead Grande/ ROCI CHILE 1985 acrylic and tarnishe National Gallery of Art American
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Robert Rauschenberg - Untitled Combine (Man with White Shoes) 1955 Combine: oil, newspa The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Robert Rauschenberg - Malaysian Flower Cave/ ROCI MALAYSIA 1990 acrylic and fabric o National Gallery of Art American
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Robert Rauschenberg - XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno (including KAR) 1959 Lithograph The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Robert Batty, Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Henri - Portrait of Mrs. Robert C. Watts 1926 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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Paul Ponce Antoine Robert ( Robert de Seri), Femme Vue en Buste, 1723
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Robert Batty, Wernigerode, plate 17 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Hohnstein, plate 3 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Dresden, plate 35 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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University of Richmond Museums: Robert Rauschenberg: From the Speculations Series
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Whitney Museum of Art: Robert Rauschenberg: Synapsis Shuffle
The extraordinary range of imagery in Synapsis Shuffle, from the banal to the exotic, derives from photographs Rauschenberg took d...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and the Geffen Contemporary: F A Room of Their Own: From Rothko to Rauschenberg
This presentation together with A Room of Their Own: From Oldenburg to Gober will span more than 50 years of contemporary art. The exhibition is co-organized by MOCA chief cu...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Robert Rauschenberg: Current Scenarios
Rauschenberg made his Wadsworth Atheneum debut in 1964, in several guises. His legendary Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) had its first public showing with other early work in the group exhibition Black, White and Grey: Contemporary Painting and ...
McKinney Avenue Contemporary: Visions, Vows and That Old Time Religion: Paintings by John Alexander
John Alexander is among the most internationally recognized artists from Texas. Like other post-war giants -- Robert Rauschenberg and Julian Schnabel come to mind -- he has made his reputation outside of Texas, all the while maintaining longst...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57
Founded in North Carolina in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, a dissident Classical academic, it attracted a star-studded cast of teachers and students who forged a dramatic shift from a Eurocentric art world to a distinctly American one. Rice invited Jo...
: Art Dealer Monolith Leo Castelli Dies at 91
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art
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Appleton Museum of Art: Homage to Van Gogh: International Artists Pay Tribute to a Legend
The collection was started in 1985 with the intention on fulfilling Van Gogh’s hope of forming a community of artists in Arles, France. Little evidence remains of Van Gogh’s residence in the city. None of the paintings made during Van Gogh’s “Arle...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: After the Beginning and Before the End: 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono
The exhibition After the Beginning and Before the End - 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono is about these beginnings. In 222 examples of the artist’s first steps toward the finished product, this exhibition s...
Milwaukee Art Museum: POP Impact: from Johns to Warhol
Pop Impact! From Johns to Warhol looks at Pop imagery from different perspectives, encouraging visitors to examine the movement's defining characteristics elements such as scale and seriality as well as such atypical Pop approaches as the...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961 - 2001
In addition, Brown will present her 2003-2004 New York dance season at the New Museum, performing many of her early works from the Judson Dance Theater period and the 1970s. Dance and Art in Dialogue is guest curated by Hendel Teicher. Compl...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Digital: Revolutions in Printmaking
The exhibition will include new works by many established artists, among them John Baldessari, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, and James Turrell. The rel...
National Gallery of Art: Best Impressions: 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.
From its beginnings, Gemini has introduced cutting-edge methods of fabrication to realize the visions of its invited artists, said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. We are pleased to present these innovative works by some of t...
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum: American Pop Icons: Works by Eight Key Artists
In a statement, Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, said of the Pop exhibition: "American Pop Icons is the third major presentation at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum as part of its ongoing mission to bring many of the wor...
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art: Adrienne Outlaw
Outlaw has interviewed such art-world luminaries as Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and James Turrell. With Movements she explores how her contact with these artists led to discoveries ...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth-Century Art
Drawn from the collections of the Loeb Art Center and 14 public and private sources, this international survey unites paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, collages, books and book-objects, poet-artist collaborations, and more by over 50 ar...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from The Museum of Modern Art
Organized thematically, the exhibition addresses some of the prevailing subjects that preoccupied Pop artists, including mass media, consumer culture, politics, and erotica. The exhibition begins with proto-Pop examples by artists such as Ja...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA
Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA is an exclusive SFMOMA presentation; the exhibition is co-organized by Madeleine Grynsztejn, the Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and John S. Weber, the Leanne ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints
The finest impressions by Rembrandt (1606–1669), one of the most experimental and greatest printmakers, are now exceedingly rare, so that it is important to take advantage when an opportunity appears. A beautiful impression of The ...
Phoenix Art Museum: Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection
This exhibition has been organized by the Portland Art Museum and is made possible by UBS. One of the foremost collections of contemporary art in the United States, The UBS Art Collection, formerly The PaineWebber Art Collection, began in 1971 wi...
Contemporary Arts Center: Slide Show
Slide Show is a series of 18 installations that range from single-carousel pieces to more cinematic presentations created with multiple projectors. Through the remarkably simple technology of a slide projector and color transparencies, artists fou...
Contemporary Arts Center: Kendell Geers: Hung, Drawn and Quartered
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Geers employs a fully integrated approach to art and life calling into question his own conflicted ancestry as a white South African. He has exhibited extensively around the world, most notably he has participat...
Andy Warhol Museum: Nadar/Warhol: Paris/New York
Organized by the Getty Museum, the Nadar/Warhol exhibition will open in Los Angeles at the Getty Center from July 20 through October 10, 1999. It will then travel to The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (November 6...
Jan van der Donk: Hazel Larsen Archer: Trimming of this Photo is Forbidden
This show indeed documents the faces of the young Cunningham, the young Cage, de Kooning, Ruth Asawa, Dorothea Rockburne, Su san Weil,  Robert Rauschenberg and Ray Johnson. On view are also portraits of Josef and Annie Albers, Charles Olson and ...
Austin Museum of Art: The New Frontier: Art and Television 1960-65
This exhibition will be the first ever to examine the impact of television on the visual arts in the United States and Europe at a crucial period in the development of both media. The origins of the media wo...
Portland Museum of Art: Leonard Baskin: Monumental Woodcuts
Monumental woodcuts--fashioned from multiple blocks joined together--were made as early as the Renaissance by artists such as Jacopo de Barbari, Hans Schufelein, and Albrecht Durer. The subjects were usually grand views, narrative compositions, or...
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: In the beginning was MERZ: From Kurt Schwitters until today
He used the term MERZ for a concept which united all his artistic activities, naming his works MERZ drawings, MERZ paintings, MERZ sculptures, MERZ publications. He also organi...
Contemporary Arts Center: Sanford Biggers: both/and not either/or
For the CAC, Biggers will produce a new exhibition environment entitled “Both/And Not Either/Or.” The exhibition will focus on a bell choir ceremony in Japan where he explores the connection between contemporary and ancestral.  Biggers’ exhibition...
Portland Museum of Art: Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection
As a teacher at Freeport High School and Curator of Maine Coast Artists in Rockport, Brown has educated many people about art and has also assembled a phenomenal collection of contemporary prints on a limited budget. Brown began collecting in the...

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