Credit Blossom (Spread)

Artist Robert Rauschenberg American, 1925–2008

Date1978

MediumSolvent transfer, quilt, and other fabrics on paperboard applied to gessoed wood panel

Dimensions84 x 108 x 2 in. (213.4 x 274.3 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest), and the State of North Carolina

Object numberG.79.2.6

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ProvenanceProbably created Captiva, FL, 1978; collection of the artist; [Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.]; sold to NCMA, 1979.Published ReferencesRobert Rauschenberg-Works from Captiva (exhibition catalogue) (Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1978), illus. (color) unpaginated.

The 36th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1979), cat. no. 27, illus. (color).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (color) 32.

Introduction to the Collections, 2nd rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 284.

Huston Paschal, entry for Credit Blossom (Spread), in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998) 242, illus. (color).

World Views: How Artists See the Earth. Newspapers in Education (supplement to the Raleigh News & Observer, n.d.), 7, illus. (b-w detail) 7, illus. (color) 9.
Exhibition HistoryVancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, "Robert Rauschenberg-Works from Captiva," September 8-October 29, 1978, illus. (color), unpaginated.

Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, "The 36th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," February 24-April 8, 1979,cat. no. 27, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," November 8, 1979-February 3, 1980.
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