Robert Rauschenberg

Noname (Elephant)
1973

A predominantly white abstract artwork featuring faint, overlapping newspaper clippings and text fragments arranged in a chaotic manner, with some areas more densely layered than others. The piece has a textured appearance with subtle variations in the white background, and there are handwritten inscriptions at the bottom.
A predominantly white abstract artwork featuring faint, overlapping newspaper clippings and text fragments arranged in a chaotic manner, with some areas more densely layered than others. The piece has a textured appearance with subtle variations in the white background, and there are handwritten inscriptions at the bottom.

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Date
1973

Classification
Prints

Medium
Solvent transfer, embossing, gesso, and 3-M tape on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 28 1/8 × 20 1/16in. (71.4 × 51 cm) Image: 28 1/8 × 20 1/16in. (71.4 × 51 cm)

Accession number
2015.222

Series
For Meyer Schapiro (1974) [Committee to Endow a Chair in Honor of Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University, New York]

Edition
62/100 [see signature]

Publication
Printed by Untitled Press Inc.; published by Columbia University, President's Office

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Arthur and Susan Fleischer

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

API
artworks/47643

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