Fossil for Bob Morris
Object Details
- Provenance
- Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, to 1967
- Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1967-1 January 1972
- Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
- Exhibition History
- WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American American Painting," 8 December 1965-30 January 1966, cat.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, fig. 988, color ill. p. 636.
- HIRSHORN MUSEM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Twentieth-Century Art from the Museum's Collection," 9 March-2 May 1991, unnumbered checklist, p. 8.
- Published References
- SECKLER, DOROHY GEES. "The Artist Speaks: Robert Rauschenberg," Art in America 54, no. 3 (May-June 1966), p. 84.
- FORGE, ANDREW. Rauschenberg (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969), p. 228.
- FORGEY, BENJAMIN. "A Washington Art Survey: Striking and Surprising," Washington DC Evening Star (23 February 1971), sec. B, p. 7, ill.
- LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), fig. 987, color ill. p. 636.
- ATHEARN, ROBERT G. American Heritage Illustrated History of the United States Volume 16: Decades of Cold War (New York: Choice Publishing, 1988), ill. p. 1379.
- AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 188, p. 209.
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
- Data Source
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Date
- 1965
- Accession Number
- 72.240
- Artist
- Robert Rauschenberg, American, b. Port Arthur, Texas, 1925–2008
- Type
- Collage
- Medium
- Paper, metal, plastic, rubber, and fabric on canvas
- Dimensions
- 84 × 60 × 9 in. (213.4 × 152.4 × 22.9 cm) [variable]
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- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
- School
- Pop Precursors
- On View
- Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
- Record ID
- hmsg_72.240
