
Inscribed on back: TO ILLIANA / + MIKE / SPRING ’61 / 8 X 10 WHT. PAINTING / 1952; on stretcher: Paris
Alternate Title: White Painting
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, Weiss auf Weiss, May 25–July 3, 1966. no. 93
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.
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. (not in cat.)
Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, Robert Rauschenberg: The Fulton Street Studio, 1953–1954, April 4–May 23, 2014. no. 5
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Azimut/h: Continuità e nuovo (Azimut/h: Continuity and Newness), September 20, 2014–January 19, 2015.
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. (not shown in London)
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.
Weiss auf Weiss. Bern, Switzerland: Kunsthalle Bern, 1966. Exhibition catalogue. no. 93, n.p., as White Painting
Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 164, 169, 209 (pl. 135)
Colpitt, Frances. “Rauschenberg: In the Beginning.” Art in America 80, no. 4 (April 1992). pp. 128–29, as White Lead Painting
Hopps, Walter, and Susan Davidson. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. p. 555 (not exhibited)
Robert Rauschenberg: The Fulton Street Studio, 1953–54. New York: Craig F. Starr Gallery, 2014. Exhibition catalogue. no. 5, n.p. (ill.)
Barbero, Luca Massimo. Azimut/h: Continuity and Newness. Venice: Marsilio, 2014. Exhibition catalogue. p. 185 (ill.)
Butler, Karen. “Robert Rauschenberg.” Artforum 52, no. 10 (Summer 2014). p. 367
Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. p. 111 (pl. 70)
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. pp. 24 (ill.), 321