2015.39.a
CROPS SERIES - Mangrove
Artist
Robert Rauschenberg (Milton Ernest Rauschenberg)
(Port Arthur, Texas, 10/22/1925 - 5/12/2008, Lee County, Florida)
Title
CROPS SERIES - Mangrove
Creation Date
1973
Century
mid-20th century
Dimensions
59 1/2 x 36 5/8 in. (151.13 x 93.03 cm)
Object Type
print
Creation Place
North America, United States
Medium and Support
solvent transfer multiple on paper
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
Copyright
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Accession Number
2015.39.a
This selection from a series of five illustrates the artist’s innovative hybrid approach to image making, which combined original and found materials. Celebrated by the art historian Leo Steinberg for developing a “flatbed picture plane,” which served as a site for gathering diverse and otherwise unrelated images, Rauschenberg often ingeniously integrated newsprint and references to popular culture to create powerfully suggestive works. In this instance, Rauschenberg’s title for the series suggests a pun, playing off of the “Crops” harvested from the ground in southern Florida, where the artist maintained a residence, and the “crops” made to create pictorial compositions.