Doric Circus
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View on museum website →Medium
mixed media on board
Dimensions
section size (each of 3 sections): 243.8 x 94 cm (96 x 37 in.) section size (triangular-shaped section): 243.8 x 66 x 66 cm (96 x 26 x 26 in.) overall size: 243.8 x 346.7 x 66 cm (96 x 136 1/2 x 26 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Lila Acheson Wallace
Accession Number
1985.28.1
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...