New York Collection - Moderna Museet
Robert Rauschenberg
American, 1925–2008
1968
An offset-lithograph poster that mimics a torn, painted collage—layering printed cardboard strips, colorful mismatched letters, and gestural white paint—to announce a New York collection for Stockholm’s Moderna Museet.
You first notice the tactile illusion of ripped cardboard bands and ransom‑note letters pierced by a central, sculptural swath of white paint, creating a playful, improvised composition that reads like a studio found‑object assembled on paper.
Rauschenberg translates his 'Combine' collages into the language of graphic design, collapsing art and everyday materials into a public poster and helping to shape postwar practices that blurred fine art, design, and mass media.
Medium
Offset lithograph
Dimensions
39 1/2 x 28" (100.3 x 71.1cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Leo W. and Evelyn D. Farland Foundation
Accession
244.1975
Palette
Exhibitions
