Givens Hall Gallery, Washington University in St. Louis, group show, February 7–25, 1955. 

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, Black and White: Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, June 7–September 20, 1975. 

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

Central House of Artists, Moscow, ROCI: Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, February 2–March 5, 1989. (not in brochure)

Neue Berliner Galerie im Alten Museum, Berlin, ROCI: Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, March 10–April 1, 1990. (not in brochure)

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. 

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. 19

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Points of Departure II: Connecting with Contemporary Art, November 17, 2001–June 9, 2002. 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA, January 30–June 24, 2003. 

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Black Paintings: Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, September 15, 2006–January 14, 2007. no. 5

Pace Gallery, New York, 50 Years at Pace, September 17–October 23, 2010. 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 75 Years of Looking Forward: The Anniversary Show, December 19, 2009–January 16, 2011. (withdrawn early)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949–1962, October 6, 2012–January 14, 2013. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, February 16–June 2, 2013. 

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. (shown in San Francisco only)

Robert Rauschenberg: Selections. Fort Worth, Texas: Fort Worth Art Center Museum, 1968. Exhibition catalogue. no. 3, n.p. (ill.) (likely not exhibited)

Robert Rauschenberg. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1976. Exhibition catalogue. no. 7, p. 67 (ill.) (not exhibited)

Rauschenberg: The White and Black Paintings 1949–1952. New York: Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1986. Exhibition catalogue. n.p. (pl. 6)

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). cover (ill.), p. 32

Feinstein, Roni. “Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949–1964.” PhD diss., New York University, 1990. ProQuest (303859753). p. 103, n.p. (fig. 22)

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 63, 67, 89 (pl. 38), as Untitled [glossy black painting]

Robert Rauschenberg. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993. n.p. (pl. 6), p. 94

Hopps, Walter, and Susan Davidson. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. no. 19, pp. 33, 44, 62 (pl. 19), as Untitled [glossy black painting]

Joseph, Branden W. Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. p. 83 (ill.), as Untitled [glossy black painting]

Rosenthal, Stephanie. Black Paintings. Translated by Büro Sieveking. Munich: Haus der Kunst; Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006. Exhibition catalogue. no. 5, pp. 27, 117 (pl. 5), as Untitled (glossy black painting)

Bishop, Janet, Corey Keller, and Sarah Roberts, eds. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years of Looking Forward. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2009. Exhibition catalogue. p. 146, as Untitled [glossy black painting]

Glimcher, Arne. 50 Years at Pace. New York: Pace Gallery, 2010. Exhibition catalogue. p. 156 (no. 90), as Untitled (Glossy Black Painting)

Boaden, James. “Black Painting (with Asheville Citizen).” Art History 34, no. 1 (February 2011). p. 175, as Untitled Black Painting

Schimmel, Paul, ed. Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949–1962. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012. Exhibition catalogue. p. 228 (ill.), as Untitled

Haskell, Caitlin. “Untitled [glossy black painting].” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. (figs. 1, 5–7), as Untitled [glossy black painting]

Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. p. 106 (pl. 66), as Untitled (Black Painting)

Kotz, Mary Lynn. Rauschenberg: Art and Life. 3rd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2018. pp. 76, 77 (ill.), as Untitled (glossy black painting)