Cardbird II
started 1970, published 1971
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View on museum website →Medium
color offset photolithographs and screenprints on paper with tape and staples mounted to corrugated carboard
Dimensions
overall (approximate): 137.16 × 83.82 cm (54 × 33 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist
Accession Number
1981.5.76
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...