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. 

City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Worlds in a Box, May 28–July 16, 1994. Traveled to Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, U.K., July 30–September 24, 1994; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K., October 10–November 30, 1994; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, December 9, 1994–February 12, 1995. no. 106

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, Robert Rauschenberg: Sculpture, October 22–December 31, 1995. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Fla., April 26–July 28, 1996. (not in cat.)

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. 591 (shown in Barcelona only)

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. 

Gladstone, New York, Robert Rauschenberg: Sympathy for Abandoned Objects, May 1–June 14, 2025. 

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

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 139 (pl. 86), 144 (pl. 92)

Worlds in a Box. London: South Bank Centre, 1994. Exhibition catalogue. no. 106, p. 94

Chevrier, Jean-François. Art and Utopia: Limited Action. Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2005. Exhibition catalogue. no. 591, pp. 272 (ill.), 409

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

Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. p. 85 (pl. 52)

Robert Rauschenberg: Sympathy for Abandoned Objects. New York: Gladstone, 2025. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 16, 29 (ill.), 30–31 (ill. [detail])