id:			172488
accession number:	2015.125
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.125
updated:		2023-04-04 11:30:18.185000

Piece for Tropic, 1979. Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925–2008). Color photo offset lithograph ; sheet: 31.7 x 54.7 cm (12 1/2 x 21 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake 2015.125 ©  Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

title:				Piece for Tropic
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creation date:			1979
creation date earliest:		1979
creation date latest:		1979
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creditline:			Bequest of John Bonebrake
copyright:			©  Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	Color photo offset lithograph 
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Screenprint
type:		Print
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CREATORS

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

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measurements: Sheet: 31.7 x 54.7 cm (12 1/2 x 21 9/16 in.)
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	description:	wove paper
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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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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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wall description:
This is one of 650,000 impressions printed of this piece by Robert Rauschenberg. It was issued in the December 30, 1979, edition of <em>Tropic </em>magazine,the Sunday supplement in the <em>Miami Herald</em> newspaper. Art Director Leon Rosenblatt asked Rauschenberg to make the artwork and invited the artist to pull from the paper’s photo archive for source material. In what was deemed the “world’s largest edition of an original lithograph,” Rauschenberg took the foundational ideas of Pop Art to their logical conclusion: the mass distribution of an artist’s work that self-referentially responds to the aesthetics of mass media.
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