Swim/ROCI USA (Wax Fire Works)
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acrylic, fire wax, and variegated brass leaf on stainless steel
Dimensions
overall: 184.8 x 245.8 cm (72 3/4 x 96 3/4 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Saff Tech Arts and the Artist
Accession Number
1991.76.25
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...