Robert Rauschenberg

You have some wonderful works that come in during the Obama administration, many of them in honor of the Obamas, um, and, and really lauding their leadership and, um, the fact that they're the first African-American couple in the White House.

So we have works in the Modernist Collection by not only Jacob Lawrence and John Maron, but Georgia O'Keeffe and Rockwell Kent and Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg.

So the collection, and Isamu Noguchi, one of the great Modernist artists He worked in landscape, he worked in sculpture, he worked in architecture.

I mean, Noguchi was just extraordinary.

So we have works in the Modernist Collection by not only Jacob Lawrence and John Marin, but Georgia O'Keeffe and Rockwell Kent and Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol and...

Robert Rauschenberg.

Um, so the collection and, I mean, Noguchi, one of the, you know, great modernist, um, uh, diverse, diversity, um, he, he worked in landscape, he worked in sculpture, he worked in architecture.

I mean, Noguchi was just extraordinary.

And so you have Jacob Lawrence coming into the collection and, um, In the George W. Bush administration, you have some wonderful works that come in during the Obama administration, many of them in honor of the Obamas and really lauding their leadership and the fact that they're the first African-American couple in the White House.

So we have works in the Modernist Collection by not only Jacob Lawrence and John Maron, but George O'Keefe and Rockwell Kent and Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg.

So the collection, and Isamu Noguchi, one of the, you know, great Modernist artists.

He worked in landscape, he worked in sculpture, he worked in architecture.

And it hasn't been performed in, you know, my experience with the sets and everything.

And after seeing set and reset, you know, I was primed for tears because of the whole Rauschenberg situation.

And, you know, that's my...

That's what I care about.

care about Trish.

I care about Marissa.

I care about Robert Rauschenberg.

Beautiful.

I mean, it was really part of my, I don't know, my kind of mythology and what I came out of.

The work they had done with Johns and Rauschenberg, Barnett Newman's Cantos portfolio.

It's all work I admired very much.

And it was a challenge and an opportunity.

to proceed.

I mean, the thing with the marulas, they were kind of a... a culmination of me trying to figure out my way around a lot of the cumbersome processes of printmaking.

So I just found the indirect, it's already an indirect medium, but all the indirectness of registration, of tracing, and avoid the reversals, So I ended up doing a number of drawings in my studio for those prints that on very thin paper that we then transferred to stones through sort of this transfer process that Rauschenberg utilized with his drawings so that I reversed the images on the stones and got back what I had drawn on the paper.

I mean,

So we need the artists to lead.

And when I looked around and I thought, you know, I grew up in the 60s with, you know, the painters, Bob Rauschenberg and and Jasper Johns and these outstanding painters and Baryshnikov, like the people at the top of their fields.

And we don't have that right now.

I mean, there was such an impulse in that time.