Artwork Details
30 x 21-3/4 in.
Mark DescriptionSigned, inscribed and dated in pencil, lower right: Rauschenberg 14/50 70
Accession NumberGift of Dr. Steven Conant in honor of Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Conant
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteRobert Rauschenberg was invited by NASA to witness the Apollo 11 moon launch on July 17, 1969. The photographic material that NASA provided him was reorganized into the 33 lithographs of his "Stoned Moon Series" done the next year at Gemini G.E.L.
While Rauschenberg's titles are often as spontaneously invented as his compositions, Strawboss probably refers to the nickname often applied to NASA's director of flight operations in the 1960s.
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