Art © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Currently not on view
Surface Series from Currents #40,
1970
Robert Rauschenberg, 1925–2008; born Port Arthur, TX; died Captiva Island, FL; active New York, NY, and Captiva Island
x1983-111 d
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Special Exhibition
With a tire advertisement declaring “4 for $66” at its center, this print combines references to civilian and military transportation technologies, including images of hot-air balloons, pictures of the deep-sea-diving research submarine <em>Trieste</em>, and a <em>New York Post</em> headline on the air war over Vietnam.
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Title
Surface Series from Currents #40
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 d
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: 40 RR 676
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
