Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Robert Rauschenberg: Prints 1948/1970, August 6–September 27, 1970. no. 1

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Robert Rauschenberg: Graphic Art, April 1–May 10, 1970. Traveled to Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, July 1–August 13, 1970; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, August 30–October 4, 1970; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (as Robert Rauschenberg: Graphics and Sculpture), October 31–December 13, 1970. no. 1 (shown in Philadelphia and Chicago only)

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s, June 15–August 11, 1991. Organized by Menil Collection, Houston. Traveled to Menil Collection, Houston, September 27, 1991–January 5, 1992; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, February 8–April 19, 1992; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 14–August 16, 1992; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, October 24, 1992–January 24, 1993. 

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, September 19, 1997–January 7, 1998 (also Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, September 19, 1997–January 4, 1998, and Ace Gallery, New York, September 19–November 9, 1997). Traveled to Menil Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 13–May 17, 1998; Museum Ludwig, Cologne (as Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospektive), June 27–October 11, 1998; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao (as Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospectiva), November 21, 1998–March 7, 1999. no. 1

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, L’anarquia del silenci: John Cage i l’art experimental (La anarquía del silencio: John Cage y el arte experimental/The Anarchy of Silence: John Cage and Experimental Art), October 23, 2009–January 10, 2010. 

Museum of Modern Art, New York, There Will Never Be Silence: Scoring John Cage’s 4'33", October 12, 2013–June 22, 2014. 

Tate Modern, London, Robert Rauschenberg, December 1, 2016–April 2, 2017. Organized with Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Museum of Modern Art, New York (as Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends), May 21–September 17, 2017; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (as Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules), November 18, 2017–March 25, 2018. (not shown in New York)

Rauschenberg: Graphic Art. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1970. Exhibition catalogue. no. 1, p. 10 (ill. [detail])

Robert Rauschenberg: Prints 1948/1970. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970. Exhibition catalogue. no. 1, n.p. (ill.)

Steele, Mike. “Rauschenberg: The Artist Is Daring.” Minneapolis Tribune, August 30, 1970. sec. E, p. 6

Feinstein, Roni. “Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949–1964.” PhD diss., New York University, 1990. ProQuest (303859753). pp. 77–78, 97, 442, n.p. (fig. 16)

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 22–23, 34, 35 (pl. 1), 36–37 (pl. 2), 109, 160, 169, 225

Smith, Mark L. “Image and Word in the Prints of Robert Rauschenberg, 1951–1981.” PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1992. ProQuest (304034847). pp. 45, 127

Colpitt, Frances. “Rauschenberg: In the Beginning.” Art in America 80, no. 4 (April 1992). pp. 127–28

Bonetti, David. “Rauschenberg: ’50s Fervor at SFMOMA.” San Francisco Examiner, May 14, 1992. sec. B, p. 6

Baker, Kenneth. “A ’50s Look at Robert Rauschenberg.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 1992. sec. D, p. 3

Robert Rauschenberg. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993. pp. 81–88 (ill. [detail])

Hopps, Walter, and Susan Davidson. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. no. 1, pp. 44, 45 (pls. 1.1, 1.2), 378

Bois, Yve-Alain. “Early Lead.” Artforum 36, no. 1 (September 1997). p. 97

Schwabsky, Barry. “Robert Rauschenberg.” Artpress (Paris), no. 230 (December 1997). pp. 72–73

Doran, Anne, and Walter Hopps. “Robert Rauschenberg: Here Comes Everybody.” Atlántica: Revista de las artes (Las Palmas, Spain), no. 21 (1998). p. 155

Jäger, Joachim. Das zivilisierte Bild: Robert Rauschenberg und seine Combine-Paintings der Jahre 1960–1962. Klagenfurt, Austria: Ritter, 1999. pp. 177–79

Joseph, Branden W. Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. pp. 57, 58 (ill.), 59 (ill.)

Schimmel, Paul. Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue. p. 261, 261 (ill.) (not exhibited)

Robinson, Julia. “From Abstraction to Model: In the Event of George Brecht and the Conceptual Turn in the Art of the 1960s.” PhD diss., Princeton University, N.J., 2008. pp. 46–47, 354 (fig. 5)

Robinson, Julia. The Anarchy of Silence: John Cage and Experimental Art. Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2009. Exhibition catalogue. p. 293

Davidson, Susan, and David White, eds. Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs 1949–1962. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2011. p. 23, 23 (fig. 15)

Craft, Catherine. Robert Rauschenberg. London: Phaidon, 2013. pp. 7, 11 (no. 5)

Haskell, Caitlin. “Untitled [glossy black painting].” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. (ill.)

Cullinan, Nicholas. “Cy + Roman Steps (I–V).” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. (fig. 4 [detail])

Davidson, Susan. “Mother of God.” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. 

Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 20–21 (figs. 5–6), 21, 361–62, 367

Becker, Anne-Grit. Cy Twombly und Robert Rauschenberg: Bilder im Prozess. Munich: Metzel, 2020. pp. 36–37 (fig. 7), 38 (fig. 8), 36–38, 41 (fig. 9 [detail])

Stemmrich, Gregor. Robert Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning Drawing” (1953): Modernism, Literalism, Postmodernism. Translated by Steven Lindberg. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2023. pp. 79, 87 (fig. 3), 135, 140–41, 145, 153, 159, 168, 237–38, 254, 277, 313, 485, 960