Inscribed, on verso, in red, upper left: CREEK | RAUSCHENBERG | 1964
Creek, 1964
- Robert Rauschenberg, American, 1925-2008
Screenprint in oil on canvas
- Unframed: 72 × 96 inches (182.9 × 243.8 cm)
- 72 5/8 × 96 3/4 × 1 7/8 inches (184.5 × 245.7 × 4.8 cm)
Gift of W. Hawkins Ferry
69.48
Department
Contemporary Art after 1950
Details
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.
the artist
dealer, Leo Castelli Gallery (New York, New York, USA). 1969-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
The Toledo Museum of Art. Heritage and Horizon. 1976, no. 60. Forge, A. Rauschenberg. New York, 1970, p.101.
Robert Rauschenberg, Creek, 1964, screenprint in oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of W. Hawkins Ferry, 69.48.