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Short Circuit by Robert Rauschenberg

Short Circuit

Robert Rauschenberg · 1955

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DETAILS
Artist
Robert Rauschenberg
Date
1955
Medium
Oil, fabric, notebook paper, postcard, printed reproductions, concert program, and autograph on canvas, wood supports, and cabinets with paintings by Susan Weil and Elaine Sturtevant
Location
Art Institute of Chicago
Dimensions
103.5 × 95.2 × 10.8 cm (41 1/2 × 38 1/4 × 4 1/2 in.)
Collection
Contemporary Art
Culture
United States
Credit line
Through prior purchase of the Grant J. Pick purchase fund; through prior bequest of Sigmund E. Edelstone; Frederick W. Renshaw Acquisition fund; Estate of Walter Aitken; Alyce and Edwin DeCosta, Walter E. Heller Foundation, and Ada Turnbull Hertle funds; Wirt D. Walker Trust; Marian and Samuel Klasstorner, Mrs. Clive Runnells, Alfred and May Tiefenbronner Memorial, Boles C. and Hyacinth G. Drechney, Charles H. and Mary F. Worcester Collection, Mary and Leigh Block Endowment, Gladys N. Anderson, Benjamin Argile Memorial, Director's, and Joyce Van Pilsum funds.
ART MOVEMENTS
Postmodernism
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