Creek
Date1964
MediumScreen print in oil on canvas
Dimensions96 × 72 inches (243.84 × 182.88 cm)
Credit LineGift of W. Hawkins Ferry
Object number69.48
ClassificationsPaintings
Curator NotesAbstraction with recognizable, overlapping images in the style of a montage. Areas of red, orange, yellow, blue and black appear against a white ground. Images include: Titian's "Venus at Mirror", a ship, an astronaut and the Statue of Liberty.
On View
Not on viewLocations
- Storage - Long-term Demo Museum (Hanover Square), East Wing, Modern, Paintings 1
ProvenanceLeo Castelli Gallery (dealer), New York, NY; the artist
Exhibitions
Text EntriesRauschenberg 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' 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.
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