Each Theme features a curated selection of artworks and archival materials, providing a focused look at topics of interest.
This lightbox presents posters made for a variety of purposes over the course of Rauschenberg’s career: from those designed to advertise his own exhibitions and the work of his collaborators, to promotional pieces for the many social and political causes he supported.
Poster for Robert Rauschenberg, the Jewish Museum
Poster for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
Untitled [self-portrait for Dwan poster]
Poster for 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
Earth Day
Poster for Dayton's Gallery 12
Poster for Jammers Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery
Poster for Rauschenberg Retrospective, National Collection of Fine Arts
Poster for WOZA Afrika
Print for Earth Summit '92, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Last Turn—Your Turn
Poster for ROCI USSR
Poster for Habitat II
Poster for Guggenheim Retrospective
Rauschenberg’s transfer drawings combine imagery excerpted from printed mass media with hand drawn and painted passages to create pictorial poems.
Untitled (Mirror)
Cup
Complete Relaxation
Hallucination
Untitled
Same Day Service
Olympia
Rauschenberg’s earliest explorations of avant-garde dance and performance
Robert Rauschenberg: Performance 1954-1995 excerpts
Linoleum
Open Score, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
Pelican notes
Spring Training supply list
Open Score notes
Pelican
Linoleum
Open Score rackets
Spring Training
Linoleum
Map Room II
Trisha Brown and Rauschenberg's life-long friendship and performance collaborations.
Set and Reset excerpt
Foray Forêt excerpt
Astral Convertible excerpt
If you couldn’t see me excerpt
Glacial Decoy
Set and Reset costumes
Set and Reset set
Lateral Pass
Astral Convertible
If you couldn’t see me contact sheet
Statement on Trisha Brown
Letter of recommendation for Trisha Brown and Laurie Anderson (Set and Reset)
Letter from Trisha Brown
Glacial Decoy Series: Etching IV
Untitled (Salvage)
Chrome Castle Glut (Neapolitan)
Rauschenberg’s collaborative relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham
Minutiae excerpt, Event for Television
Antic Meet
Travelogue excerpt, South Bank Show
Robert Rauschenberg: The Art of Performance
Merce Cunningham documentary
Antic Meet
Aeon machine
Cunningham world tour
Interscape
Statement for Cunningham book
Minutiae
Story