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. 

Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy, Rauschenberg, February 29–June 6, 2004. no. 12

Gagosian Gallery, New York, Robert Rauschenberg: Important Early Works from the Cy Twombly Foundation, April 25–September 26, 2026. 

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. cover (ill. [detail]), pp. 68, 153–54, 181 (pl. 109), as Untitled [horizontal black painting]

Camper, Fred. “The Unordered Universe.” Reader (Chicago), March 27, 1992. sec. 1, p. 31

Hopps, Walter, and Susan Davidson. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. no. 49, pp. 36 (fig. 26 [detail]), 79 (pl. 49), as Untitled [horizontal black painting] (not exhibited)

Joseph, Branden W. Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. p. 82 (ill.), as Untitled [horizontal black painting]

Davidson, Susan, and David White. Rauschenberg. Ferrara, Italy: Ferrara Arte, 2004. Exhibition catalogue. no. 12, pp. 114–15 (ill.), as Untitled [horizontal black painting]

Rosenthal, Stephanie. Black Paintings. Translated by Büro Sieveking. Munich: Haus der Kunst; Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006. Exhibition catalogue. no. 22, p. 133 (pl. 22), as Untitled (horizontal black painting) (not exhibited)

Thomas, James Merle. “Untitled [black painting with portal form].” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. (fig. 3), as Untitled [horizontal black painting]