Stable Gallery, New York, Rauschenberg: Paintings and Sculpture, September 15–October 3, 1953. 

Jewish Museum, New York, Robert Rauschenberg, March 31–May 12, 1963. no. 2

Finch College Museum of Art, New York, Art in Series, November 22, 1967–January 7, 1968. 

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, White Paintings 1951, October 12–26, 1968. 

Ace Gallery, Venice, Calif., Rauschenberg White Paintings (1951), April 10–30, 1973. Traveled to Ace Gallery, Vancouver, June 1–16, 1973. 

Larry Gagosian Gallery, New York, Rauschenberg: The White and Black Paintings 1949–1952, April 18–May 31, 1986. 

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Seven American Masters, July 4–November 15, 1986. 

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. 17

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection, February 9–April 22, 2001. 

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Black Mountain College: Una aventura americana (Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art), October 28, 2002–January 13, 2003. 

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, March 5–May 19, 2004. 

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, N.C., Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting, August 28, 2014–January 11, 2015. 

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 San Francisco)

Crehan, Hubert. “The See Change: Raw Duck.” Art Digest 27, no. 20 (September 15, 1953). p. 25

Ashton, Dore. “57th Street: Bob Rauschenberg.” Art Digest 27, no. 20 (September 15, 1953). p. 21

Cage, John. “On Robert Rauschenberg, Artist, and His Work.” Metro (Milan), no. 2 (1961). p. 36 (fig. 2)

Solomon, Alan R. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Jewish Museum, 1963. Exhibition catalogue. no. 2, n.p.

Johnston, Jill. “Reviews and Previews: Robert Rauschenberg.” Artnews 62, no. 3 (May 1963). p. 11

Tomkins, Calvin. “Profiles: Moving Out.” New Yorker 40, no. 2 (February 29, 1964). p. 39

Calas, Nicolas. “Robert Rauschenberg.” Kulchur (New York) 4, no. 15 (Autumn 1964). p. 16, as Seven Whites

Kaprow, Allan. “Experimental Art.” Artnews 65, no. 1 (March 1966). p. 63 (ill. [install])

Bochner, Mel. “The Serial Attitude.” Artforum 6, no. 4 (December 1967). p. 28, as Seven White Panels, p. 29 (ill.), as White Painting

Robert Rauschenberg: Selections. Fort Worth, Texas: Fort Worth Art Center Museum, 1968. Exhibition catalogue. no. 2, n.p. (ill.) (not exhibited)

Glueck, Grace. “Ben Shahn Shines On.” New York Times, October 13, 1968. sec. D, p. 39

Pincus-Witten, Robert. “New York: Robert Rauschenberg, Castelli Gallery.” Artforum 7, no. 4 (December 1968). pp. 54 (ill. [install]), 55

Forge, Andrew. Rauschenberg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1969]. p. 5 (ill.)

Forge, Andrew. Rauschenberg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1972]. n.p. (pl. 2)

Olson, Roberta J. M. “A Retrospective: Castelli on Rauschenberg.” SoHo Weekly News (New York), March 24, 1977. p. 26

Sandler, Irving. “Rauschenberg and Johns.” In The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties, by Irving Sandler, pp. 174–95. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. p. 175 (no. 125)

Ratcliff, Carter. “Mostly Monochrome.” Art in America 69, no. 4 (April 1981). p. 113 (ill.)

Rauschenberg: The White and Black Paintings 1949–1952. New York: Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1986. Exhibition catalogue. n.p.

Feinstein, Roni. “The Early Work of Robert Rauschenberg: The White Paintings, the Black Paintings, and the Elemental Sculptures.” Arts Magazine (New York) 61, no. 1 (September 1986). p. 28

La couleur seule: L’expérience du monochrome. Lyon: Octobre des Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue. p. 43 (ill.) (not exhibited)

Feinstein, Roni. “Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949–1964.” PhD diss., New York University, 1990. ProQuest (303859753). p. 87, n.p. (fig. 21)

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 80, 85 (pl. 35), 157 (fig. 47 [install]), 158, 165

Hopps, Walter, and Susan Davidson. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. no. 17, p. 59 (pl. 17)

Hunter, Sam. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Rizzoli, 1999. p. 12 (no. 5)

Joseph, Branden W. “White on White.” Critical Inquiry 27, no. 1 (Autumn 2000). p. 109 (fig. 12)

Katz, Vincent, ed. Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. Exhibition catalogue. p. 158 (ill.)

Joseph, Branden W. Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. p. 51 (ill.)

Davidson, Susan, and David White. Rauschenberg. Ferrara, Italy: Ferrara Arte, 2004. Exhibition catalogue. p. 80 (fig. 39) (not exhibited)

Dennison, Lisa, and Nancy Spector. Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2004. Exhibition catalogue. p. 82 (ill.)

Hunter, Sam. Robert Rauschenberg: Works, Writings and Interviews. Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2006. p. 17 (ill.)

Pissarro, Joachim. Cézanne/Pissarro, Johns/Rauschenberg: Comparative Studies on Intersubjectivity in Modern Art. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. p. 107 (fig. 12)

Davidson, Susan, and David White, eds. Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs 1949–1962. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2011. pp. 24, 175 (pl. 81)

Craft, Catherine. Robert Rauschenberg. London: Phaidon, 2013. p. 31 (no. 24)

Roberts, Sarah. “White Painting [three panel].” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. 

Nesin, Kate. Cy Twombly’s Things. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014. p. 58 (fig. 13)

Stiles, Kristine, ed. Rauschenberg: Collecting and Connecting. Durham, N.C.: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; New York: Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 2014. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 14–15 (ill.)

Falconer, Morgan. Painting Beyond Pollock. London: Phaidon, 2015. pp. 168–69 (ill.)

Krčma, Ed. Robert Rauschenberg. London: Tate Publishing, 2016. p. 31 (fig. 23)

Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 51 (pl. 14), 88 (ill.)

Stemmrich, Gregor. Robert Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning Drawing” (1953): Modernism, Literalism, Postmodernism. Translated by Steven Lindberg. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2023. pp. 82, 89 (fig. 5), 93 (fig. 10 [install])