Art © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Gemini G.E.L./Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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Earth Day,
1970
Robert Rauschenberg, 1925–2008; born Port Arthur, TX; died Captiva Island, FL; active New York, NY, and Captiva Island
Printed at and published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Printed at and published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
x1971-21
Posters represented an important segment of Rauschenberg’s enormous printmaking output, appealing to the artist’s strong sense of political and social consciousness, while providing the opportunity for his art to reach a broader public. The design for this lithograph originated as a poster Rauschenberg created for the American Environment Foundation to honor the first Earth Day celebrations on April 22, 1970. Castelli Graphics published an edition of 10,000 as offset lithographs but also had three hundred copies printed by hand on highquality paper with an added collage element; these omitted the date and were signed by the artist as fine art prints.
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Title
Earth Day
Dates
1970
Maker
Medium
Color lithograph with collage
Dimensions
132 × 95 cm (51 15/16 × 37 3/8 in.)
frame: 141.2 × 103.5 × 4.8 cm (55 9/16 × 40 3/4 × 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Friends of the Princeton University Art Museum
Object Number
x1971-21
Place Made
North America, United States, California, Los Angeles
Inscription
Signed, numbered, and dated in graphite, bottom left: RAUSCHENBERG 29//50 70
Workshop number on verso in graphite, bottom right: RR 70-350
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamped, bottom right: Gemini G.E.L. / Los Angeles, Calif.
Copyright and Gemini blindstamps, bottom left
Reference Numbers
Foster 154 [original]; RRF 70.E016; Gemini 256
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- "Robert Rauschenberg: Prints 1948/1970" (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970).
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"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1971," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 31 no. 1 (1972): p. 20-32.
, p. 24 -
Hugh M. Davies, "Pop prints: new acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 31, 2 (1972): p. 24-29.
, fig. 4, p. 29; p. 28 (illus.) - "Robert Rauschenberg" (Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1976).
- Johanna Burton et al., Pop art: contemporary perspectives, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT: distributed by Yale University Press, 2007), p. 143 (color illus.)
