Horsefeathers Thirteen—VII
started 1972, published 1976
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color offset lithograph, cut-and-pasted printed magazine paper, screenprint, stencil print, embossing, and varnish on tan, handmade Jeff Goodman Pencil paper
Dimensions
sheet: 60.6 x 44.8 cm (23 7/8 x 17 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Benjamin B. Smith
Accession Number
1985.47.172
Art Historical Context
**Horsefeathers Thirteen—VII** (started 1972, published 1976) is a dynamic print by Robert Rauschenberg, a pioneering American artist whose boundary-pushing work bridged Pop Art, Neo-Dada, and performance. Part of his *Horsefeathers Thirteen* series, this piece exemplifies Rauschenberg's lifelong fascination with layering images from mass media, everyday objects, and chance elements to challenge traditional notions of art. Created during a prolific phase in the 1970s, when he increasingly explored printmaking as a democratic medium, it reflects the era's cultural flux amid technological advanc...
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...