Robert Rauschenberg: Kyoto, Sri Lanka, and Thai Drawings

Traveling extensively around the world in the early 1980s, Robert Rauschenberg travelled to Asia in 1983. During his time in Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Kyoto, Japan, Rauschenberg created suites of drawings, seventeen of which are on loan from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to the Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland. Made on ceremonial mats and Japanese dedication boards, the artist used solvent transfer, watercolor, gouache, pencil, and occasionally gold leaf to create highly lyrical works on paper. Rauschenberg included examples of the drawings on the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (1984–1991) tour, providing international viewers with a glimpse of the images and materials of these diverse locations.