About the Artwork
Rauschenberg integrated printing techniques, using photographs gleaned from newspapers and magazines and transferred to canvas by a silkscreen method, to continue the spirit of assemblage he had pioneered earlier. Creek's iconography balances the topical—space flight and the urban landscape—with the timeless—Rubens's Venus before the Mirror. Their juxtapositions are random, yet provocative enough to make the viewer speculate about the power of love and human feats. Rauschenberg’s roots in painting are vividly evident in the expressively brushed passages and in the lyrical combination of colors.
Creek
1964
Robert Rauschenberg
1925-2008
American
Unknown
Screenprint in oil on canvas
Unframed: 72 × 96 inches (182.9 × 243.8 cm) Framed: 72 5/8 × 96 3/4 × 1 7/8 inches (184.5 × 245.7 × 4.8 cm)
Paintings
Contemporary Art after 1950
Gift of W. Hawkins Ferry
69.48
Restricted
Markings
Inscribed, on verso, in red, upper left: CREEK | RAUSCHENBERG | 1964
Provenance
the artist;dealer, Leo Castelli Gallery (New York, New York, USA).
1969-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Toledo Museum of Art. Heritage and Horizon. 1976, no. 60.
Forge, A. Rauschenberg. New York, 1970, p.101.
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Robert Rauschenberg, Creek, 1964, screenprint in oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of W. Hawkins Ferry, 69.48.
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