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Centennial Certificate: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969
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Gift of Dayton's Gallery 12expand_more P.70.29
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In 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York commissioned Rauschenberg to produce a lithograph commemorating the 100th anniversary of the museum. For this print, he combined representative imagery selected from the Metropolitan's extensive permanent collection of art. During the project, Rauschenberg learned that the Metropolitan museum's original goals were detailed in a "certificate" dating to 1870, a document that had been prepared on graph paper. Using this concept, Rauschenberg prepared an updated certificate with his own text, which was then signed by Metropolitan officials, including the museum director, Thomas Hoving.
Details
- Title
- Centennial Certificate: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist Life
- 1925–2008
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.70.29
- Provenance
- (Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis); given to MIA, 1970.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Foster 71
- Curator Approved
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Robert Rauschenberg, Centennial Certificate: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969 © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation