Abstract mixed-media painting with dark vertical central shape and electrical cords leading to a blue-lit cylinder on the floor.

Paintings

Blue Eagle

1961

Medium
Oil, enamel, cotton T-shirt, metal cans, eye screw, and wires, torn paper, canvas, and graphite pencil on linen with electric cord, can, and light bulb
Dimensions
Overall: 84 × 60 × 5 in. (213.4 × 152.4 × 12.7 cm)
Accession number
2002.260
Acquired
2002
Credit line
Gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President
Reproduction credit
© Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Robert Rauschenberg, Blue Eagle, 1961. Oil, enamel, cotton T-shirt, metal cans, eye screw, and wires, torn paper, canvas, and graphite pencil on linen with electric cord, can, and light bulb, overall: 84 × 60 × 5 in. (213.4 × 152.4 × 12.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President 2002.260. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibitions featuring the artist

Exhibitions in the Whitney's archive featuring any of the artists listed for this work. Artwork-level exhibition history is not published by the museum; the list below is artist-level.