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Poster - Earth Day 22 April 1970
  • Earth Day 22 April 1970
    Robert Rauschenberg, born 1925 - died 2008
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Earth Day 22 April 1970

  • Object:

    Poster

  • Place of origin:

    United States, United States (published)

  • Date:

    1970 (published)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Robert Rauschenberg, born 1925 - died 2008 (artist)
    American Environment Foundation (publisher)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Screenprint in black and brown

  • Credit Line:

    Reproduced courtesy of Robert Rauschenberg/VAGA, New York/DACS, London 1997

  • Museum number:

    E.3035-1991

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

  • Image in copyright

The first Earth Day was called in 1970 to promote environmental activism in the USA. Robert Rauschenberg's powerful design combines a photographic catalogue of environmental abuse with the supreme symbol of the USA, the eagle.

Physical description

Portrait format poster.Montage of nine photographic images of environmental abuse forming backdrop to a central photographic image of the American eagle. Images on the margin printed in black and white, the eagle in brown and black.Captioned at bottom and with Rauschenberg's signature

Place of Origin

United States, United States (published)

Date

1970 (published)

Artist/maker

Robert Rauschenberg, born 1925 - died 2008 (artist)
American Environment Foundation (publisher)

Materials and Techniques

Screenprint in black and brown

Marks and inscriptions

Rauschenberg 70

Dimensions

Height: 856 mm sheet, Width: 642 mm sheet

Production Note

Reason For Production: Commission

Materials

Paper; Printing ink

Techniques

Collage; Screenprint

Subjects depicted

Eagle; Protest; Pollution; Environmental impact; Waste

Categories

Prints; Politics; Propaganda; Posters

Production Type

Mass produced

Collection code

PDP

Qr_O76623
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