Pull (Hoarfrost Editions) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2008.337
People: Robert Rauschenberg, American (Port Arthur, TX 1925 - 2008 Captiva Island, FL)
Title: Pull (Hoarfrost Editions)
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1974
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/329946

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

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Gift of Ruth and William S. Ehrlich
Accession Year: 2008
Object Number: 2008.337
Contact: am_straus@harvard.edu
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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.

Anny Shaw, "Street artist Mr. Brainwash sued over 'copied' image", The Art Newspaper (London, 2011), No. 222, p. 8, p. 8, ill. (color)