Sketch for Monogram

Robert Rauschenberg challenged artistic practices and styles throughout his career as demonstrated in his Combines, a new artistic category which combined painting and sculpture. Arguably his most famous Combine, Monogram, places a stuffed goat with a tire around its midsection on a painted horizontal canvas. Monogram evolved through three states which Rauschenberg documented in drawings and photographs--and in this lithograph of a sketch. Here, the sketches from several angles together with his calculations, reveal Rauschenberg’s experimentation and thought process.

Emma Capaldi '23

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