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

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

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Campaign for Art: Modern and Contemporary, May 14–September 18, 2016. 

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)

Tomkins, Calvin. “Profiles: Moving Out.” New Yorker 40, no. 2 (February 29, 1964). p. 66

Tomkins, Calvin. Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980. p. 107

Rauschenberg: The White and Black Paintings 1949–1952. New York: Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1986. Exhibition catalogue. n.p. (pl. 8 [upside down])

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 62–63, 68, 70, 100 (pl. 49 [early state]), 153, 177 (pl. 104), as Untitled [black painting with portal form]

Bois, Yve-Alain, and Rosalind E. Krauss. L’informe: Mode d’emploi. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1996. Exhibition catalogue. p. 56 (ill.), as Sans titre (Black Painting) (not exhibited)

Hopps, Walter, and Susan Davidson. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. no. 48, pp. 33, 44, 78 (pl. 48), as Untitled [black painting with portal form] (not exhibited)

Mattison, Robert S. Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. pp. 54, 55 (fig. 18), 56, as Untitled [black painting with portal form]

Tomkins, Calvin. Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Picador, 2005. pp. 96–97

Rosenthal, Stephanie. Black Paintings. Translated by Büro Sieveking. Munich: Haus der Kunst; Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006. Exhibition catalogue. no. 17, pp. 31, 127 (pl. 17), as Untitled (black painting with portal form) (not exhibited)

Brown, Carolyn. Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. p. 86

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. 147, as Untitled [black painting with portal form] (not exhibited)

Thomas, James Merle. “Untitled [black painting with portal form].” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. (figs. 1, 2 [early state]), as Untitled [black painting with portal form]

Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. p. 56 (pl. 19), as Untitled (Black Painting)