Robert Rauschenberg
Witness
1965
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Robert Rauschenberg
Witness
1965
Physical Qualities
Graphite and white opaque watercolor over solvent transfer, Sheet: 738 x 585 mm. (29 1/16 x 23 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. I.W. Burnham II, for the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection
Object Number
1967.6
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1967; Mr. and Mrs. I.W. Burnham II, 1967; Leo Castelli Gallery, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "Rauschenberg," 6 March - 14 April 1968.
Victor Carlson (organized and circulated by the BMA), "19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings from The Baltimore Museum of Art." E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, November 3 - December 2, 1973; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, January 18 - February 17, 1974; The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2 - April 21, 1974, cat. 54.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 14 October - 12 December 1982.
BMA, "Figure Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 21 July - 27 September 1987.
BMA, "Modern Master Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 21 February - 30 April 1989.
BMA, "Making the Decades: Drawings 1960-1990," 5 February - 19 April, 1992.
BMA, "Drawings of the 1960s from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 17 November 1993 - 30 January 1994.
BMA, "Select Views: Drawings from the Benesch Collection," 21 May - 30 July 2006.
BMA, "On Paper: Figure Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," April 20 - September 14, 2014.
Victor Carlson (organized and circulated by the BMA), "19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings from The Baltimore Museum of Art." E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, November 3 - December 2, 1973; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, January 18 - February 17, 1974; The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2 - April 21, 1974, cat. 54.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 14 October - 12 December 1982.
BMA, "Figure Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 21 July - 27 September 1987.
BMA, "Modern Master Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 21 February - 30 April 1989.
BMA, "Making the Decades: Drawings 1960-1990," 5 February - 19 April, 1992.
BMA, "Drawings of the 1960s from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 17 November 1993 - 30 January 1994.
BMA, "Select Views: Drawings from the Benesch Collection," 21 May - 30 July 2006.
BMA, "On Paper: Figure Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," April 20 - September 14, 2014.
BMA News, vol. XXIX, nos 3-4, 1967, p. 14 (illus p. 5).
BMA News, vol. XXX, nos 1-2, 1968, p. 29 (not illus).
"The Thomas Edward Benesch Memorial Collection," BMA, 1970, unpaginated.
Ana Rosner, "The Benesch Collection: The Intimate World of Drawings." Newsletter of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society (Spring 2006), illus. p. 22.
Clisby, Roger D. 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings from the Baltimore Museum of Art: Catalogue [of an exhibition held at the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, November 3 - December 2, 1973, Honolulu Academy of Arts, January 18 - February 17, 1974, and William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, April 2 - April 21, 1974]. [Sacramento, CA]: E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1973, cat. no. 54, unpaged
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 173, ill.
Inscribed: verso, in graphite: "Witness / Rauschenberg / Dec. '66"
Markings: Chopmark: Strathmore
Artist
Robert Rauschenberg
born Port Arthur, TX 1925; died Captiva, FL 2008
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