National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Robert Rauschenberg, October 30, 1976–January 2, 1977. Traveled to Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 25–May 17, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 24–August 21, 1977; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., September 25–October 30, 1977; Art Institute of Chicago, December 3, 1977–January 15, 1978. no. 21

Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase, Soundings, September 20–December 23, 1981. 

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. 107

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. no. 56

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. 54

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. 592

Dallas Museum of Art, Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg, September 4, 2005–January 8, 2006. no. 39

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, L’anarquia del silenci: John Cage i l’art experimental (La anarquía del silencio: John Cage y el arte experimental/The Anarchy of Silence: John Cage and Experimental Art), October 23, 2009–January 10, 2010. 

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp, October 30, 2012–January 21, 2013. Traveled to Barbican Art Gallery, London (as The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns), February 14–June 9, 2013. 

Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, Robert Rauschenberg: The Fulton Street Studio, 1953–1954, April 4–May 23, 2014. no. 9

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Merce Cunningham: Common Time, February 8–July 30, 2017. (not in cat.)

Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, Le surréalisme dans l’art américain, May 11–September 26, 2021. Organized by Musées de Marseille and Réunion des Musées Nationaux–Grand Palais, Paris. no. 88

Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Fünf Freunde: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly (Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly), April 10–August 17, 2025. Traveled to Museum Ludwig, Cologne, October 3, 2025–January 11, 2026. 

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

Robert Rauschenberg. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1976. Exhibition catalogue. no. 21, p. 73 (ill.)

Tallmer, Jerry. “Rauschenberg Rides Again.” New York Post, March 26, 1977. p. 24

Soundings. Purchase: Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, 1981. Exhibition catalogue. p. 49 (ill.)

Feinstein, Roni. “Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949–1964.” PhD diss., New York University, 1990. ProQuest (303859753). pp. 115, 120, 137–38

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 155, 157–58, 187 (pl. 114)

Johnson, Patricia C. “’50s Unveiled: Rauschenberg Shows Work New to Public.” Houston Chronicle, September 29, 1991. “Zest” sec., p. 22

Camper, Fred. “The Unordered Universe.” Reader (Chicago), March 27, 1992. sec. 1, p. 33

Bonetti, David. “Rauschenberg: ’50s Fervor at SFMOMA.” San Francisco Examiner, May 14, 1992. sec. B, p. 6

Worlds in a Box. London: South Bank Centre, 1994. Exhibition catalogue. no. 107, pp. 72–73, 73 (ill.)

Turrell, Julia Brown, ed. Rauschenberg Sculpture. Fort Worth, Texas: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 1995. Exhibition catalogue. no. 56, pp. 65 (pl. 56), 65–66

Turner, Elisa. “Surprising Take on Enfant Terrible’s Sculpture.” Miami Herald, April 28, 1996. sec. I, p. 3I

Hopps, Walter, and Susan Davidson. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. no. 54, pp. 44, 84 (pl. 54)

Doran, Anne, and Walter Hopps. “Robert Rauschenberg: Here Comes Everybody.” Atlántica: Revista de las artes (Las Palmas, Spain), no. 21 (1998). p. 155

Johnson, Patricia C. “Melding Pot.” Houston Chronicle, February 15, 1998. p. 9

Chevrier, Jean-François. Art and Utopia: Limited Action. Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2005. Exhibition catalogue. no. 592, pp. 276 (ill.), 409

Kosinski, Dorothy. Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art; New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Exhibition catalogue. no. 39, pp. 19, 20 (ill.), 101

Chevrier, Jean-François. L’action restreinte: L’art moderne selon Mallarmé. Paris: Hazan; Nantes, France: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, 2005. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 272 (ill.), 330

Pissarro, Joachim. Cézanne/Pissarro, Johns/Rauschenberg: Comparative Studies on Intersubjectivity in Modern Art. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. pp. 172–74, 173 (fig. 29)

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. 396 (fig. 52)

Robinson, Julia. The Anarchy of Silence: John Cage and Experimental Art. Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2009. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 182 (ill.), 293

Delfiner, Judith. Double-Barrelled Gun: Dada aux États-Unis (1947–1957). Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, 2011. pp. 238, 239 (fig. 24)

Basualdo, Carlos, and Erica F. Battle, eds. Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. Exhibition catalogue. p. 390 (ill.)

Roberts, Sarah. “Untitled (Elemental Sculpture) [steel flange and stone].” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. 

Robert Rauschenberg: The Fulton Street Studio, 1953–54. New York: Craig F. Starr Gallery, 2014. Exhibition catalogue. no. 9, n.p. (ill.)

Butler, Karen. “Robert Rauschenberg.” Artforum 52, no. 10 (Summer 2014). p. 367 (ill.)

Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 93, 114 (pl. 75) (not exhibited)

Kotz, Mary Lynn. Rauschenberg: Art and Life. 3rd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2018. p. 83, 83 (ill.)

Caruso, Rossella. “Robert Rauschenberg alla Galleria L’Obelisco: Scatole e feticci personali.” In Irene Brin, Gaspero del Corso e la Galleria L’Obelisco, edited by Vittoria Caterina Caratozzolo, Ilaria Schiaffini, and Claudio Zambianchi, pp. 204–15. Rome: Drago, 2018. p. 209

de Chassey, Éric. Le surréalisme dans l’art américain: Dalí, Ernst, Tanguy, Pollock, Rothko, Johns, Bourgeois. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2021. Exhibition catalogue. no. 88, p. 104 (ill.)

Robert Rauschenberg: Sympathy for Abandoned Objects. New York: Gladstone, 2025. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 11 (fig. 1), 41 (not exhibited)

Dziewior, Yilmaz, and Achim Hochdörfer, with Arthur Fink, eds. Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly. Munich: Museum Brandhorst; Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 2025. Exhibition catalogue. p. 321