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Surface Series from Currents #47,
1970
Robert Rauschenberg, 1925–2008; born Port Arthur, TX; died Captiva Island, FL; active New York, NY, and Captiva Island
x1983-111 k
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Special Exhibition
The profiles of Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of Egypt, and Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel, appear above a <em>New York Times</em> article discussing the February 12, 1970, Israeli air strike outside of Cairo that killed seventy Egyptian civilians and dramatically heightened tensions in the Middle East. Directly above, another newspaper photograph shows a man fishing peacefully in Connecticut.
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Title
Surface Series from Currents #47
Dates
1970
Maker
Medium
Screenprint
Dimensions
image: 89 × 89 cm (35 1/16 × 35 1/16 in.)
sheet: 101.5 × 101.6 cm (39 15/16 × 40 in.)
frame: 102.6 × 102.6 × 4.4 cm (40 3/8 × 40 3/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Arthur A. Goldberg
Object Number
x1983-111 k
Place Made
North America, United States, New York, New York
Inscription
Signed, numbered, and dated in graphite, bottom right: RAUSCHENBERG 76//100 70
Numbered in graphite, verso lower margin: 47
Reference Numbers
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation 70.E032
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"Rauschenberg Currents" (Minneapolis: Dayton’s Gallery 12, 1970).
, no. 41 - "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1983," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 43, no. 1 (1984): p. 18-42., p. 35
- Johanna Burton et al., Pop art: contemporary perspectives, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT: distributed by Yale University Press, 2007), p. 146, illustrated
