Robert Rauschenberg

Glass/Channel/Via Panama (Cardboard)
1971

A large, abstract wall sculpture made from various sizes of cardboard boxes, some with shipping labels and tape, arranged in a cross-like formation and mounted on a white gallery wall. The sculpture features printed warnings such as "FRAGILE GLASS" and "DO NOT LAY FLAT DO NOT DROP," with a small cardboard box suspended by a string at the right end.
A large, abstract wall sculpture made from various sizes of cardboard boxes, some with shipping labels and tape, arranged in a cross-like formation and mounted on a white gallery wall. The sculpture features printed warnings such as "FRAGILE GLASS" and "DO NOT LAY FLAT DO NOT DROP," with a small cardboard box suspended by a string at the right end.

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Date
1971

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Cardboard and rope

Dimensions
Overall: 111 1/2 × 185 × 23 1/4in. (283.2 × 469.9 × 59.1 cm)

Accession number
2014.299a-e

Series
Cardboards

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President, by exchange

Rights and reproductions
© Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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