id:			169185
accession number:	2011.109
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.109
updated:		2023-05-13 11:08:24.594000

Surface Series from Currents, 1970. Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925–2008), Dayton's Gallery 12 and Castelli Graphics. Screenprint; sheet: 111.6 x 111.6 cm (43 15/16 x 43 15/16 in.); image: 89 x 89 cm (35 1/16 x 35 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Joseph and Lucy Russell 2011.109 ©  Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

title:				Surface Series from Currents
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series:				
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creation date:			1970
creation date earliest:		1970
creation date latest:		1970
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creditline:			Gift of Joseph and Lucy Russell
copyright:			©  Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	screenprint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Screenprint
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Foster 152, no. 115

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CREATORS

* Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925–2008)  - artist

* Dayton's Gallery 12 and Castelli Graphics  - published by

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measurements: Sheet: 111.6 x 111.6 cm (43 15/16 x 43 15/16 in.); Image: 89 x 89 cm (35 1/16 x 35 1/16 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	Aqua B 844 paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	In graphite, lower right margin:  Rauschenberg PP 1/3 70
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Photographs in Ink
	opening date:   2022-11-20T05:00:00
	<i>Photographs in Ink</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).

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PROVENANCE

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wall description:
Robert Rauschenberg questioned the relationship of art and the news in a moment of great social and political change. He collaged headlines and images from mainstream and counterculture newspapers published in early 1970. This jumble of scraps evokes the artist’s studio tabletop or a newspaper designer’s light table. To make the final printing plate, Rauschenberg manually cut and pasted different elements together (in the form of photographic negatives), visually presenting the tension between art and the news where the photographs overlap. The gridded arrangement of the halftone dots conflict and create an optical effect known as moiré pattern.
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