With just weeks to go until the conclusion of our Rauschenberg Centennial exhibition, Joni reflects on some of her fondest memories of Bob, and has made a selection of her personal favorites of affordable Rauschenberg prints.

"I don’t think I ever saw Bob when he wasn’t wearing a watch – he was a watch collector and was fascinated with the imagery of clocks.  Highly ironic for someone who was always famously late to just about every party, dinner date or even his own receptions…"

Bob was never without a dog – or several…. 

Flags and their patterns were forever part of Bob’s visual resources…

And making small, affordable prints – for commerce or to benefit organizations – was always a priority for Bob, from the earliest collaborations with Gemini in the 60’s to his last ones in 2000.

For more on Rauschenberg, Joni highly recommends …..

A book of his writings has just been published by Yale University Press.  

Comprising correspondence, artist notes, testimony, speeches, and more, this collection brings to light the artist’s love of language and reveals that writing was, in fact, central to Rauschenberg’s practice. The writings, illustrated with reproductions in the artist’s distinctive hand, are infused with visual and intellectual lyricism, humor, and insight, and span topics from the freedom of artistic expression to environmental concerns.

All photos of Rauschenberg © Sidney B. Felsen