Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Scatole e costruzioni contemplative di Bob Rauschenberg, opened March 14, 1953. (likely shown)

Galleria dell’Obelisco, Rome, Bob Rauschenberg: Scatole e feticci personali, March 3–10, 1953. (likely shown)

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. (shown in New York only)

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Art i utopia: L’acció restringida (Arte y utopía: La acción restringida/Art and Utopia: Action Restricted), June 3–September 12, 2004. Traveled to Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France (as L’action restreinte: L’art moderne selon Mallarmé), April 8–July 3, 2005. no. 593

Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Part Object, Part Sculpture, October 30, 2005–February 26, 2006. 

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. 

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Rauschenberg Sculpture, January 31–April 26, 2026. 

Feinstein, Roni. “Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949–1964.” PhD diss., New York University, 1990. ProQuest (303859753). p. 119, n.p. (fig. 33)

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 138 (pl. 86), 142 (pl. 90)

Chevrier, Jean-François. Art and Utopia: Limited Action. Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2005. Exhibition catalogue. no. 593, pp. 273 (ill.), 409

Molesworth, Helen. Part Object, Part Sculpture. Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University; University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. Exhibition catalogue. p. 99 (ill.)

Chevrier, Jean-François. L’action restreinte: L’art moderne selon Mallarmé. Paris: Hazan; Nantes, France: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, 2005. Exhibition catalogue. p. 330

Cullinan, Nicholas. “Double Exposure: Robert Rauschenberg’s and Cy Twombly’s Roman Holiday.” Burlington Magazine 150, no. 1264 (July 2008). p. 468 (fig. 36)

Lanchner, Carolyn. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009. p. 11 (fig. 3)

Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. p. 84 (pl. 50)