Fossil for Bob Morris
Date
1965
Artist
Robert Rauschenberg, American, b. Port Arthur, Texas, 1925–2008
Provenance
Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, to 1967
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1967-1 January 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American American Painting," 8 December 1965-30 January 1966, cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, fig. 988, color ill. p. 636.
HIRSHORN MUSEM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Twentieth-Century Art from the Museum's Collection," 9 March-2 May 1991, unnumbered checklist, p. 8.
Published References
SECKLER, DOROHY GEES. "The Artist Speaks: Robert Rauschenberg," Art in America 54, no. 3 (May-June 1966), p. 84.
FORGE, ANDREW. Rauschenberg (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969), p. 228.
FORGEY, BENJAMIN. "A Washington Art Survey: Striking and Surprising," Washington DC Evening Star (23 February 1971), sec. B, p. 7, ill.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), fig. 987, color ill. p. 636.
ATHEARN, ROBERT G. American Heritage Illustrated History of the United States Volume 16: Decades of Cold War (New York: Choice Publishing, 1988), ill. p. 1379.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 188, p. 209.
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Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
72.240
Type
Collage
Medium
Paper, metal, plastic, rubber, and fabric on canvas
Dimensions
84 × 60 × 9 in. (213.4 × 152.4 × 22.9 cm) [variable]
