Mark
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lithograph in black on Angoumois à la Main handmade paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 35.24 × 39.05 cm (13 7/8 × 15 3/8 in.) sheet: 40.01 × 39.05 cm (15 3/4 × 15 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Patricia Bauman and John Bryant)
Accession Number
2015.19.3078
Art Historical Context
Robert Rauschenberg's *Mark* (1964) is a striking black lithograph on luxurious Angoumois à la Main handmade paper, measuring about 35 x 39 cm for its irregular image. Created during a pivotal moment in Rauschenberg's career, this exemplifies his boundary-pushing spirit as a leader in the Neo-Dada and Pop Art movements. Fresh from his groundbreaking "Combines"—hybrid works blending painting, sculpture, and found objects—Rauschen turned to printmaking in the 1960s to explore texture, chance, and reproducibility with fresh vigor. Lithography, a planographic technique where greasy crayon or tusc...
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...