Tampa Clay Piece 1
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View on museum website →Medium
clay and fiberglass
Dimensions
overall: 36.8 x 39.4 x 1.9 cm (14 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 3/4 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Graphicstudio/University of South Florida and the Artist
Accession Number
1986.26.96
Art Historical Context
**Tampa Clay Piece **, created by Robert Rauschenberg 1972, is a striking sculpture that exemplifies the artist's boundary-pushing spirit. Measuring just 36.8 x 39.4 x 1.9 cm, this shallow relief work combines clay and fiberglass into a textured, low-profile form that invites close inspection. Donated to the National Gallery of Art bystudio at the University of South Florida the artist himself, it reflects Rauschenberg's deep collaborations with innovative print workshops during the 1970s. Rauschenberg, a pioneer of Neo-Dada and Pop Art, was renowned for blending everyday materials with fine ...
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...