Pyramid Gallery, New York, drawings by New York painters and sculptors, December 22, 1957–February 5, 1958. 

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., Black, White and Grey, January 9–February 9, 1964. 

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, American Drawings, September 17–October 27, 1964. Traveled to University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, November 11–December 13, 1964; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Mich., January 10–February 7, 1965; University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February 24–March 24, 1965; Seattle Art Museum, April 8–May 2, 1965; Denver Art Museum, June 6–July 4, 1965; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, July 25–August 22, 1965; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio, September 12–October 10, 1965; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, November 14–December 5, 1965. no. 106

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art in the Mirror, November 22, 1966–February 5, 1967. Traveled to Mansfield Fine Arts Guild, Ohio, March 10–April 2, 1967; San Francisco State College, April 21–May 14, 1967; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, June 27–July 23, 1967; Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, September 22–October 15, 1967; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 3–December 3, 1967; State University of New York College at Oswego, February 13–March 6, 1968. no. 30

Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Texas, Robert Rauschenberg: Selections, January 5–February 2, 1969. no. 6

New York Cultural Center, 3D into 2D: Drawing for Sculpture, January 19–March 11, 1973. Traveled to Art Gallery, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, March 15–April 15, 1973; Vancouver Art Gallery, May 7–June 17, 1973; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, August 3–September 3, 1973; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, October 13–November 18, 1973; Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 14–February 3, 1974. no. 77 (shown in New York only)

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Pollock Galleries, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Poets of the Cities: New York and San Francisco, 1950–1965, November 20–December 29, 1974. Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Art, January 31–March 23, 1975; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., April 23–June 1, 1975. no. 50

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Drawing Now: 1955–1975, January 23–March 9, 1976. Organized by International Council, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Kunsthaus Zürich (as Zeichnung heute), October 10–November 14, 1976; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (as Zeichnung heute), November 25, 1976–January 16, 1977; Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna (as Zeichnung heute), January 28–March 6, 1977; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway (as Tegning i dag), March 17–April 24, 1977; Tel Aviv Museum, May 12–July 2, 1977. (shown in New York only)

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. 24

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Art About Art, July 19–September 24, 1978. Traveled to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, October 15–November 26, 1978; Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, December 19, 1978–February 11, 1979; Portland Art Museum, Ore., March 6–April 15, 1979. 

Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany, Robert Rauschenberg: Das zeichnerische Werk, 1949–1979, May 5–July 29, 1979. Traveled to Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammlung Sprengel, Germany, August 19–September 23, 1979. 

Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, Robert Rauschenberg: Werke 1950–1980, March 25–May 4, 1980. Traveled to Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (as Robert Rauschenberg), June 7–July 13, 1980; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (as Robert Rauschenberg), September 20–November 23, 1980; Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt, December 4, 1980–January 18, 1981; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, February 4–April 5, 1981; Tate Gallery, London (as Robert Rauschenberg), April 29–June 14, 1981. no. 88 (not shown in London)

Rheinhallen, Cologne, Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, May 30–August 16, 1981. Organized by Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne. no. 545

Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Rauschenberg, February 8–March 24, 1985. Traveled to Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, March 28–May 19, 1985. no. 4

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Übrigens sterben immer die anderen: Marcel Duchamp und die Avantgarde seit 1950, January 15–March 6, 1988. no. 245

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, L’art conceptuel, une perspective, November 22, 1989–February 18, 1990. Traveled to Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid (as Arte conceptual: Una perspectiva), March 20–April 29, 1990; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (as Concept Art: Eine Perspektive), May 16–July 1, 1990; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, August 5–October 21, 1990. no. 175 (shown in Paris and Madrid only)

Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany, Territorium Artis, June 19–September 20, 1992. no. 146

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. (withdrawn early from San Francisco, returned to tour in New York)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Rolywholyover: A Circus, September 12–November 28, 1993. Traveled to Menil Collection, Houston, January 14–April 2, 1994; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, April 23–July 31, 1994; Art Tower Mito, Japan, November 3, 1994–February 26, 1995; Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 4–July 30, 1995. (not in cat.; not shown in Mito or Philadelphia)

46th Venice Biennale, Identità e alterità: Figure del corpo 1895–1995 (Identity and Alterity: Figures of the Body 1895–1995), June 10–October 14, 1995. no. VI. 29

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Duchamp’s Leg, November 5, 1994–March 26, 1995. Traveled to Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, December 2, 1995–March 3, 1996. (shown in Minneapolis only)

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. 63

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900–2000; Part II, 1950–2000, September 26, 1999–February 13, 2000. 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art, March 23–October 28, 2001. 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Points of Departure II: Connecting with Contemporary Art, November 17, 2001–June 9, 2002. 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA, January 30–June 24, 2003. 

Seattle Art Museum, Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949–78, June 25–September 7, 2009. 

Pace Gallery, New York, 50 Years at Pace, September 17–October 23, 2010. 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 75 Years of Looking Forward: The Anniversary Show, December 19, 2009–January 16, 2011. (withdrawn early)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, October 24, 2013–May 26, 2014. 

Drawing Biennale 2014, The Future Shapes the Past (Fremtiden former fortiden), Oslo, October 10–November 23, 2014. Organized by Kunsthall Oslo and Tegnerforbundet, Oslo. 

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. 

Sandler, Irving. “New York Painters’ and Sculptors’ Drawings.” Artnews 56, no. 9 (January 1958). p. 19

Tōno, Yoshiaki. “International Look at the USA: Japanese, from a Gulliver’s Point of View.” Art in America 48, no. 2 (Summer 1960). p. 58

Cage, John. “On Robert Rauschenberg, Artist, and His Work.” Metro (Milan), no. 2 (1961). p. 41

Cage, John. “On Robert Rauschenberg, Artist, and His Work.” In Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage, pp. 98–108. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1961. p. 101

Parinaud, André. “Un ‘misfit’ de la peinture new-yorkaise se confesse.” Arts (Paris), no. 821 (May 10, 1961). p. 18

American Drawings. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1964. Exhibition catalogue. no. 106, n.p.

Kozloff, Max. “The Impact of de Kooning.” In New York: The Art World, edited by James R. Mellow, pp. 77–88. New York: Arts Digest, 1964. pp. 77, 79–80

Berkman, Florence. “Pop Art on Exhibition Free, Far Out.” Hartford Times, January 11, 1964. as Erased Drawing

Tomkins, Calvin. “Profiles: Moving Out.” New Yorker 40, no. 2 (February 29, 1964). pp. 66, 71

Calas, Nicolas. “Robert Rauschenberg.” Kulchur (New York) 4, no. 15 (Autumn 1964). p. 24

O’Doherty, Brian. “Vanity Fair: The New York Art Scene.” Newsweek 65, no. 1 (January 4, 1965). p. 58

Sherman, John K. “Drawing Affords a Certain Freedom: Guggenheim Collection Is Lively Example.” Minneapolis Tribune, March 7, 1965. sec. E, p. 4

Art in the Mirror: An Exhibition. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966. Exhibition brochure. no. 30, n.p.

Kaprow, Allan. “Experimental Art.” Artnews 65, no. 1 (March 1966). p. 63

Kostelanetz, Richard. “The Artist as Playwright and Engineer.” New York Times Magazine, October 9, 1966. pp. 122, 124

Rosenberg, Harold. “The Art World: Defining Art.” New Yorker 43, no. 1 (February 25, 1967). p. 99

Seldis, Henry J. “‘Mirror’ Exhibit Unrevealing.” Los Angeles Times, July 2, 1967. p. 30

Robert Rauschenberg: Selections. Fort Worth, Texas: Fort Worth Art Center Museum, 1968. Exhibition catalogue. no. 6, n.p.

Robert Rauschenberg. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1968. Exhibition catalogue. p. 68 (not exhibited)

Forge, Andrew. Rauschenberg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1969]. pp. 7, 25

Cage, John. A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1969. pp. 71, 75

Hopkins, Henry T. “In the Museums: Robert Rauschenberg.” Arts Magazine (New York) 43, no. 4 (February 1969). p. 55

Steinberg, Leo. “Reflections on the State of Criticism.” Artforum 10, no. 7 (March 1972). p. 47

Ginsburg, Susan. 3D into 2D: Drawing for Sculpture. New York: New York Cultural Center, 1973. Exhibition brochure. no. 77, p. 31

Poets of the Cities: New York and San Francisco, 1950–1965. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1974. Exhibition catalogue. no. 50, pp. 35, 45, 76 (pl. 4)

Haacke, Lorraine. “Robert Rauschenberg—Evolving from the Shadows.” Dallas Times Herald, November 20, 1974. sec. F, pp. 1, 11

Robert Rauschenberg. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1976. Exhibition catalogue. no. 24, p. 75, 75 (ill.)

Rose, Bernice. Drawing Now. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1976. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 8 (ill.), 12

Rosenberg, Harold. “The Art World: American Drawing and the Academy of the Erased de Kooning.” New Yorker 52, no. 5 (March 22, 1976). pp. 106–8

McKendry, Maxime de la Falaise. “Robert Rauschenberg Talks to Maxime de la Falaise McKendry.” Interview 6, no. 5 (May 1976). p. 36

Hughes, Robert. “The Most Living Artist.” Time 108, no. 22 (November 29, 1976). p. 61

Forgey, Benjamin. “An Artist for All Decades.” Artnews 76, no. 1 (January 1977). p. 35

Stuckey, Charles F. “Reading Rauschenberg.” Art in America 65, no. 2 (March–April 1977). p. 79

Ratcliff, Carter. “New York.” Art International (Lugano, Switzerland) 21, no. 3 (May–June 1977). pp. 60–61

Rosenberg, Harold. “The Art World: Souvenirs of an Avant-Garde.” New Yorker 53, no. 13 (May 16, 1977). pp. 124–27

Bloomfield, Arthur. “Art of the Enfant Terrible.” San Francisco Examiner, June 24, 1977. p. 25

Roth, Moira. “The Aesthetic of Indifference.” Artforum 16, no. 3 (November 1977). pp. 50, 52 (ill.)

de la Falaise, Maxime. “Rauschenberg à Washington et à New York.” XXe siècle (Paris) 39, no. 49 (December 1977). pp. 28–29

Schulze, Franz. “Rauschenberg’s Cheerful Cheek.” Chicago Daily News, December 3–4, 1977. “Panorama” sec., p. 15

Lipman, Jean, and Richard Marshall. Art About Art. New York: E. P. Dutton; Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 142, 147, 147 (ill.)

Sandler, Irving. “Rauschenberg and Johns.” In The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties, by Irving Sandler, pp. 174–95. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. p. 177

Robert Rauschenberg: Zeichnungen, Gouachen, Collagen 1949 bis 1979. Munich: R. Piper, 1979. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 11, 176

Sutinen, Paul. “Rauschenberg’s Quieter Revolution.” Willamette Week (Portland, Ore.), April 23, 1979. p. 9

Robert Rauschenberg: Werke 1950–1980. Berlin: Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, 1980. Exhibition catalogue. no. 88, pp. 58, 262, 263 (ill.)

Tomkins, Calvin. Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980. pp. 96–97, 299

“Robert Rauschenberg.” Special issue, Louisiana Revy (Humlebæk, Denmark) 21, no. 1 (September 1980). no. 63, p. 46, 46 (ill.)

Glozer, Laszlo. Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939. Cologne: DuMont, 1981. Exhibition catalogue. no. 545, p. 23, 23 (ill.)

Robert Rauschenberg. London: Tate Gallery, 1981. Exhibition brochure. n.p. (not exhibited)

Ratcliff, Carter. “Mostly Monochrome.” Art in America 69, no. 4 (April 1981). pp. 120 (ill.), 122–23

McEwen, John. “Now and Zen.” Spectator (London) 246, no. 7975 (May 16, 1981). p. 27

Copeland, Roger. “The Politics of Perception.” Contact Quarterly 6, no. 2 (Winter 1981). p. 17

de Antonio, Emile, and Mitch Tuchman. Painters Painting: A Candid History of the Modern Art Scene, 1940–1970. New York: Abbeville, 1984. pp. 91–92

Bolmeier, Jane. “Response and Documentation: Aesthetic Inquiry Relevant to Selected Works of Robert Rauschenberg.” PhD diss., New York University, 1984. ProQuest (303303575). pp. 2, 45–46, 47 (fig. 6), 48–58, 225, 270–71, 274

Rauschenberg. Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 1985. Exhibition catalogue. no. 4, n.p. (ill.)

Hunter, Sam. Selections from the Ileana and Michael Sonnabend Collection: Works from the 1950s and 1960s. Princeton, N.J.: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1985. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 21, 76 (not exhibited)

Rose, Barbara. Rauschenberg. New York: Vintage Books, 1987. pp. 4, 51

Übrigens sterben immer die anderen: Marcel Duchamp und die Avantgarde seit 1950. Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 1988. Exhibition catalogue. no. 245, p. 331

L’art conceptuel, une perspective. Paris: Paris-Musées, 1989. Exhibition catalogue. no. 175, pp. 15, 21, 223, 223 (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. 140–46, 182–83, 331, 342, 489, n.p. (fig. 50)

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 160–62, 168, 201 (pl. 127), 227

“A Close-Up of an Artist’s Evolution at Corcoran.” Washington Times, June 24, 1991. sec. E, p. 3

Saff, Donald J. “Conservation of Matter: Robert Rauschenberg’s Art of Acceptance.” Aperture, no. 125 (Fall 1991). p. 30

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

Ennis, Michael. “A Protean Talent.” Texas Monthly 19, no. 11 (November 1991). p. 82

Wood, Carol. “Robert Rauschenberg.” Arts Magazine (New York) 66, no. 3 (November 1991). p. 84

Hultén, Pontus. Territorium Artis. Bonn, Germany: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje, 1992. Exhibition catalogue. no. 146, pp. 282, 283 (ill.)

Camper, Fred. “The Unordered Universe.” Reader (Chicago), March 27, 1992. sec. 1, pp. 30–32

Colpitt, Frances. “Rauschenberg: In the Beginning.” Art in America 80, no. 4 (April 1992). pp. 128–29

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

Baker, Kenneth. “A ’50s Look at Robert Rauschenberg.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 1992. sec. D, p. 3

Knight, Christopher. “Enlightening Look at Early Work of Robert Rauschenberg.” Los Angeles Times, May 20, 1992. sec. F, pp. 1, 6

Tarshis, Jerome. “Creativity Knew No Limits.” Christian Science Monitor, September 14, 1992. p. 16

Larson, Kay. “Zen and the Art.” New York 25, no. 45 (November 16, 1992). p. 90

Robert Rauschenberg. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993. pp. 89 (pl. 63), 93

Robert Rauschenberg: The 2nd Hiroshima Art Prize. Hiroshima: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 1993. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 38, 42 (not exhibited)

La Biennale di Venezia, 46. esposizione internazionale d’arte: Identity and Alterity, Figures of the Body 1895/1995. Venice: Marsilio, 1995. Exhibition catalogue. no. VI. 29, p. 385 (ill.)

Hopps, Walter, and Susan Davidson. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. no. 63, pp. 41, 44, 92 (pl. 63), 221

Bois, Yve-Alain. “Early Lead.” Artforum 36, no. 1 (September 1997). p. 97

Hickey, Dave. “Open Charms.” Artforum 36, no. 1 (September 1997). pp. 101, 152

Pacheco, Patrick. “He Got Painting’s Goat.” Art and Antiques 20, no. 8 (September 1997). p. 105

Richardson, John. “Rauschenberg’s Epic Vision.” Vanity Fair, no. 445 (September 1997). p. 322

Stevens, Mark. “More Is More.” New York 30, no. 37 (September 29, 1997). pp. 54, 56

Tomkins, Calvin. “Master of Invention.” New Yorker 73, no. 31 (October 13, 1997). pp. 92, 94

Doran, Anne, and Walter Hopps. “Robert Rauschenberg: Here Comes Everybody.” Atlántica: Revista de las artes (Las Palmas, Spain), no. 21 (1998). p. 156

Godfrey, Tony. Conceptual Art. London: Phaidon, 1998. pp. 62 (ill.), 63–64, 75, 81

Feinstein, Roni. “Rauschenberg: Solutions for a Small Planet.” Art in America 86, no. 2 (February 1998). p. 69

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

Haithman, Diane. “S. F. Museum of Modern Art Goes on a Buying Spree.” Los Angeles Times, June 6, 1998. sec. F, pp. 4, 6

Baker, Kenneth. “Rauschenberg’s Reality.” San Francisco Chronicle, August 20, 1998. sec. E, pp. 1, 1 (ill.), 4

Phillips, Lisa. The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950–2000. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; W. W. Norton, 1999. Exhibition catalogue. p. 83, 83 (fig. 116)

Taylor, Paul. Private Domain: An Autobiography. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. p. 55

Bonetti, David. “Rauschenberg Coup Cements SFMOMA’s Ascendance.” San Francisco Examiner, May 21, 1999. sec. C, p. 4

Steinberg, Leo. Encounters with Rauschenberg (A Lavishly Illustrated Lecture). Houston: Menil Collection; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. pp. vi, 16, 17 (fig. 13), 18–23

Joseph, Branden W. “White on White.” Critical Inquiry 27, no. 1 (Autumn 2000). pp. 113–15, 114 (fig. 13)

Belcove, Julie L. “Old Master.” W (New York) 29, no. 9 (September 2000). p. 507

Meyer, James. “Introduction to the ‘Minimal’ 1: ‘Black, White, and Gray.’” In Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties, by James Meyer, pp. 76–81. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001. p. 77

Joseph, Branden W., ed. Robert Rauschenberg. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. pp. 29, 127

Joseph, Branden W. Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. pp. 63, 64 (ill.), 65, 91–92, 157

Molesworth, Helen, ed. Work Ethic. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art; University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 24 (ill.), 25, 32, 83 (not exhibited)

Davidson, Susan, and David White. Rauschenberg. Ferrara, Italy: Ferrara Arte, 2004. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 30–31, 45, 66 (fig. 33), 66–68, 80, 95 (not exhibited)

Stevens, Mark, and Annalyn Swan. De Kooning: An American Master. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. pp. 359–60, 455

Osaki, Shinichiro, ed. Traces: Body and Idea in Contemporary Art. Kyoto: National Museum of Modern Art, 2004. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 17, 17 (ill.), 20, 318 (not exhibited)

Hess, Barbara. “Willem de Kooning: An Erasure.” In Willem de Kooning, 1904–1997: Content as a Glimpse, by Barbara Hess, pp. 6–9. Cologne: Taschen, 2004. pp. 7–8, 8 (ill.)

Schimmel, Paul. Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 206, 248 (ill.) (not exhibited)

Tomkins, Calvin. Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Picador, 2005. pp. 87–88, 273, 286

Delfiner, Judith. “Quelques gouttes de sauvagerie sur Manhattan: La réception de Dada à New York, 1945–1957.” Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, no. 93 (Autumn 2005). p. 71

Pissarro, Joachim. Cézanne/Pissarro, Johns/Rauschenberg: Comparative Studies on Intersubjectivity in Modern Art. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. pp. 149–51, 154, 247–48

Robert Rauschenberg: On and Off the Wall. Aarhus, Denmark: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2006. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 40, 67–68 (not exhibited)

Shaw, Lytle. Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. p. 127

Katz, Vincent. “A Genteel Iconoclasm.” Tate Etc., no. 8 (September 1, 2006). 

Baker, R. C. “Robert Rauschenberg, 1925–2008.” Village Voice, May 21, 2008. p. 47

de la Durantaye, Leland. “Rummaging Through Rauschenberg’s Trash.” Modern Painters 20, no. 6 (July–August 2008). p. 73

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. pp. 143 (pl. 107), 147

Lanchner, Carolyn. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009. pp. 29, 30 (fig. 13)

Darling, Michael, ed. Target Practice: Painting Under Attack, 1949–78. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2009. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 26, 26 (ill.), 149

Glimcher, Arne. 50 Years at Pace. New York: Pace Gallery, 2010. Exhibition catalogue. p. 157 (no. 91)

Davidson, Susan, and David White, eds. Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs 1949–1962. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2011. pp. 23–24

Delfiner, Judith. Double-Barrelled Gun: Dada aux États-Unis (1947–1957). Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, 2011. pp. 183–84, 213

Craft, Catherine. Robert Rauschenberg. London: Phaidon, 2013. pp. 44, 45 (no. 41), 122

The Show Is Over. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2013. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 3 (ill.), 4 (ill. [verso]), 14, 15 (ill. [infrared]) (not exhibited)

Brougher, Kerry, Russell Ferguson, and Dario Gamboni. Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Munich: DelMonico/Prestel, 2013. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 109–11, 110 (fig. 5), 113

Mundy, Jennifer. “Drawing Away.” In Lost Art: Missing Artworks of the Twentieth Century, by Jennifer Mundy, pp. 174–78. London: Tate Publishing, 2013. pp. 14, 174 (ill. [infrared]), 175–78, 178 (ill.)

Roberts, Sarah. “Automobile Tire Print.” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. 

Davidson, Susan. “Mother of God.” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. 

Roberts, Sarah. “Erased de Kooning Drawing.” Rauschenberg Research Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2013. (figs. 1, 2 [detail], 3 [verso, framed], 4 [verso, unframed], 6, 8 [infrared])

Crow, Thomas. The Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design, 1930–1995. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014. pp. 45–46

Cotkin, George. “Erasure and Addition: Robert Rauschenberg 1953.” In Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility, by George Cotkin, pp. 37–47. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. pp. 37–41, 45

Krčma, Ed. Robert Rauschenberg. London: Tate Publishing, 2016. pp. 12–13, 13 (fig. 7)

Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 89, 93–94, 97, 99 (pl. 57), 398

Hopps, Walter. “Robert Rauschenberg.” In The Dream Colony: A Life in Art, by Walter Hopps pp. 237–55. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. p. 245

Kotz, Mary Lynn. Rauschenberg: Art and Life. 3rd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2018. pp. 82, 108, 251, 262, 298–99, 302

Sinclair, Sara, with Mary Marshall Clark and Peter Bearman, eds. Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. pp. 25, n.p. (fig. 3), pp. 196–97, 217–18

Becker, Anne-Grit. Cy Twombly und Robert Rauschenberg: Bilder im Prozess. Munich: Metzel, 2020. pp. 138 (fig. 51), 138–39, 190, 257–58

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