Large mixed-media collage with colorful drips and textures and a sculpted bird perched on top.

Sculpture On view

Satellite

1955

Medium
Oil, fabric, paper and wood on canvas with taxidermied pheasant
Dimensions
Overall: 79 3/8 × 43 5/16 × 5 5/8 in. (201.6 × 110 × 14.3 cm)
Accession number
91.85
Acquired
1991
Credit line
Gift of Claire B. Zeisler and purchase with funds from the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund
Reproduction credit
© Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Robert Rauschenberg, Satellite, 1955. Oil, fabric, paper and wood on canvas with taxidermied pheasant, overall: 79 3/8 × 43 5/16 × 5 5/8 in. (201.6 × 110 × 14.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Claire B. Zeisler and purchase with funds from the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund 91.85. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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