Publicon—Station V
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View on museum website →Medium
wood and aluminum with baked epoxy enamel, collaged fabrics, brick, plexiglas, light bulb, and lacquer
Dimensions
overall (closed): 45.7 × 91.4 × 20.3 cm (18 × 36 × 8 in.) overall (open): 45.72 × 151.13 × 20.32 cm (18 × 59 1/2 × 8 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist
Accession Number
1981.5.271
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...