Robert Rauschenberg
Kill Devil Hill

Kill Devil Hill

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Kill Devil Hill
Kill Devil Hill
ArtistAmerican, 1925–2008
PrinterAmerican, born 1951
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Kill Devil Hill
Date1975
MediumTwo lithographs in colors on wove paper, edition 28/42
DimensionsSheet (each): 27 3/16 × 40 3/16 in. (69 × 102 cm)
Frame: 29 11/16 × 83 1/16 × 1 15/16 in. (75.4 × 211 × 5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Grant and Elizabeth Harvey, Rob and MaryEllen Kimbrough, Susanna V. and Andrew E. Townend, Kareen P. and Frederick L. Townend, Hugh A. Armstrong, and Theodore J. Lee and Marc A. Sekula
Object number2021.47
Not on view

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist, 1975; …; Private Collection, Colorado, before October 2020; [Chicago, Hindman auctions, Sale 790, Prints and Multiples, October 2, 2020, Lot 18]; [Hiram Butler Gallery, 2020]; purchased by the MFAH, 2021.
Exhibition History"Robert Rauschenberg: The Fifth Veil," Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, November 18, 2020–January 16, 2021.

"Making Contact," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Aug. 20, 2021 - Jan. 2, 2022. [Second Installation/Light-Sensitive Rotation: Kinder Building 207: No Catalog]
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: signed in graphite, center bottom edge, in reverse (across both sheets): RAUSCHENBERG
Recto: numbered in graphite, bottom left corner (of left sheet): 28/42
Recto: dated in graphite, bottom right corner (of right sheet): 75
Verso (of right sheet), numbered in graphite, bottom right: 28/42

Watermark: England J Whatman Mould Made 1952
Recto: bottom left corner (of left sheet) and bottom right corner (of right sheet): ULAE chopmark

Catalogue raisonnéSparks 52 (p. 446)

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