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Study for Chinese Summerhall

1983

Robert Rauschenberg

Associated Names

Robert Rauschenberg

Artist, American, 1925 - 2008

This is a photograph of laundry hanging outside a building. The scene captures several pieces of clothing suspended by clothespins on lines running between poles outside a building. The building has a worn-down façade with weathered paint and bamboo blinds partially covering the windows. The sunlight casts shadows of the hanging clothes and the lines onto the wall. The background reveals a typical urban setting with elements of aging architecture.

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Artwork overview

Medium

chromogenic print
Credit Line

Gift of Graphicstudio/University of South Florida and the Artist
Dimensions

image: 38.74 × 38.74 cm (15 1/4 × 15 1/4 in.)
sheet: 60.96 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 in.)
Accession Number

1986.26.138

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Graphicstudio, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Gift to NGA, 1986.

Associated Names

University of South Florida Foundation

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower left in black ink: Rauschenberg; by artist, lower right in black marker ink: USF PROOF

Wikidata ID

Q64171256

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