Autobiography
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View on museum website →Medium
color offset lithograph on three sheets of wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 168.28 × 371.48 cm (66 1/4 × 146 1/4 in.) sheet (each, approx.): 168 × 123.8 cm (66 1/8 × 48 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Robert Rauschenberg, Milton Glaser, and Marian B. Javits
Accession Number
1992.63.1.a-c
About the Artist
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg, born Milton Ernest Rauschenberg on October 22, 1925, in Port Arthur, Texas, to parents Ernest R. Rauschenberg and Dora Carolina (née Matson), grew up in a Fundamentalist Christian household. Initially enrolled in pharmacology at the University of Texas at Austin, he dropped out and pursued art studies at the Kansas City Art Institute and Paris's Académie Julian, where he met a...