2008.337: Pull (Hoarfrost Editions)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2008.337
- People
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Robert Rauschenberg, American (Port Arthur, TX 1925 - 2008 Captiva Island, FL)
- Title
- Pull (Hoarfrost Editions)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1974
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/329946
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Solvent transferred offset lithograph and screenprint to fabric collage with paper bags
- Technique
- Lithograph and screen print
- Dimensions
- 215.9 x 121.92 cm (85 x 48 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower right corner, graphite: RAUSCHENBERG SP1 74
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Gift of Ruth and William S. Ehrlich
- Copyright
- © Robert Rauschenberg / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 2008
- Object Number
- 2008.337
- Contact
- am_straus@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- The process sequence is as follows: 1. a paper bag was glued to cheesecloth with acrylic polymer matte medium, 2. images of a balloon and three blue faces, both in offset, and a screenprinted image of a diver were transferred to cheesecloth, 3. images of a blue face and a salad bowl, both in offset, as well as newspaper imagery, and a screened image of a diver were transferred to silk taffeta. 4. paper bags at the top and cheesecloth were glued to silk taffeta with acrylic polymer matte medium. The two holes at the top right and top left were machine-stitched to accommodate nails for hanging.
Publication History
- Anny Shaw, "Street artist Mr. Brainwash sued over 'copied' image", The Art Newspaper (London, 2011), No. 222, p. 8, p. 8, ill. (color)
- Adam Greenhaigh, Adam Novak, and Julia Burke, To Print on Air: Robert Rauschenberg’s Hoarfrost Editions, Facture: Conservation Science Art History, ed. Daphne Barbour and Susanne Lomax, National Gallery of Art (https://doi-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.37862/aaeportal.00230.008, January 2020), 4, Pages 220-249, Figure 21