Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, Gallery Group 1951–52, May 12–June 14, 1952. 

Menil Collection, Houston, The Menil Collection, June 7, 1987–October 24, 1988. 

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. 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Rolywholyover: A Circus, September 12–November 28, 1993. Traveled to Menil Collection, Houston, January 14–April 2, 1994; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, April 23–July 31, 1994; Art Tower Mito, Japan, November 3, 1994–February 26, 1995; Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 4–July 30, 1995. (not in cat.)

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. 8

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933–1957, October 10, 2015–January 24, 2016. Traveled to Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, February 21–May 15, 2016; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, September 17, 2016–January 1, 2017. 

Menil Collection, Houston, The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps, March 24–August 13, 2023. 

The Menil Collection: A Selection from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. p. 273 (pl. 209)

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 6, 32, 63–64, 79 (pl. 30)

Hopps, Walter, and Susan Davidson. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. no. 8, pp. 44, 52 (pl. 8)

Belcove, Julie L. “Old Master.” W (New York) 29, no. 9 (September 2000). p. 507

Rosenthal, Stephanie. Black Paintings. Translated by Büro Sieveking. Munich: Haus der Kunst; Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006. Exhibition catalogue. no. 3, pp. 27, 113 (pl. 3) (not exhibited)

Molesworth, Helen, with Ruth Erickson. Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933–1957. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art; New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015. Exhibition catalogue. p. 307 (ill.)

Stemmrich, Gregor. Robert Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning Drawing” (1953): Modernism, Literalism, Postmodernism. Translated by Steven Lindberg. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2023. p. 96 (fig. 15)