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. 5

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

Musée Saint Pierre Art Contemporain, Lyon, La couleur seule: L’expérience du monochrome, October 7–December 5, 1988. no. 23

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. 

Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, Singular Dimensions in Painting, May 26, 1993–January 4, 1994. (withdrawn early)

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, The 2nd Hiroshima Art Prize: Robert Rauschenberg, November 3, 1993–January 16, 1994. no. 6

46th Venice Biennale, Identità e alterità: Figure del corpo 1895–1995 (Identity and Alterity: Figures of the Body 1895–1995), June 10–October 14, 1995. no. VI. 28

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Black Paintings: Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, September 15, 2006–January 14, 2007. no. 4

Gagosian Gallery, New York, Robert Rauschenberg, October 29, 2010–January 15, 2011. 

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, N.C., Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting, August 28, 2014–January 11, 2015. (not in cat.)

Solomon, Alan R. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Jewish Museum, 1963. Exhibition catalogue. no. 5, n.p. (ill.)

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

Rauschenberg: The White and Black Paintings 1949–1952. New York: Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1986. Exhibition catalogue. n.p. (pl. 4)

La couleur seule: L’expérience du monochrome. Lyon: Octobre des Arts, 1988. Exhibition catalogue. no. 23, p. 131 (ill.)

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 63, 66, 87 (pl. 37), 154, 184, 190 (pl. 117 [install]), as Untitled [matte black triptych]

Tallmer, Jerry. “Getting Started in Black and White.” New York Post, November 6, 1992. p. 42

Robert Rauschenberg: The 2nd Hiroshima Art Prize. Hiroshima: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 1993. Exhibition catalogue. no. 6, p. 55 (pl. 6), as Untitled [matte black triptych]

Celant, Germano, ed. Roma–New York, 1948–1964: An Art Exploration. Milan: Charta, 1993. Exhibition catalogue. p. 21, as Untitled [matte black triptych] (not exhibited)

La Biennale di Venezia, 46. esposizione internazionale d’arte: Identity and Alterity, Figures of the Body 1895/1995. Venice: Marsilio, 1995. Exhibition catalogue. no. VI. 28, p. 384 (ill.), as Untitled

Rosenthal, Stephanie. Black Paintings. Translated by Büro Sieveking. Munich: Haus der Kunst; Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006. Exhibition catalogue. no. 4, pp. 27, 115 (pl. 4), as Untitled (matte black triptych)

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. p. 361 (fig. 13), as Untitled (Black Paintings)

Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2010. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 53–54 (ill.), as Untitled (matte black triptych)

Schimmel, Paul, ed. Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949–1962. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 112–13 (ill.), as Untitled (not exhibited)

Roberts, Sarah. “White Painting [three panel].” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. (fig. 2), as Untitled [matte black triptych]