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Erased de Kooning Drawing

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Erased de Kooning Drawing is a 1953 conceptual work by the American artist Robert Rauschenberg, presenting an almost blank sheet of paper in a gilded frame. Rauschenberg created it by obtaining a drawing from the abstract expressionist artist Willem de Kooning and then erasing it by hand. His friend and fellow artist Jasper Johns later framed the erased sheet in a gilded frame and inscribed a caption reading Erased de Kooning Drawing, Robert Rauschenberg, 1953, styled to resemble the labeling conventions used for old master drawings and prints. The work has been in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art since 1998, which describes it as a drawing carrying traces of drawing media on paper with a label and gilded frame. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year Created
1953 1
Medium
Traces of drawing media on paper with a label and gilded frame 1
Location
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1
Classification
Genre
Drawing 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Drawing 1
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In Form

Drawing, Art Forms
Source Erased de Kooning Drawing (Wikipedia)

In Genre

Drawing, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. Erased de Kooning Drawing (Wikipedia)
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence
    is an early work of American artist Robert Rauschenberg, from 1953
  • Lead paragraph, collection sentence
    It has been in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) since 1998.
  • Lead paragraph, SFMOMA description sentence
    traces of drawing media on paper with a label and gilded frame
  • infobox medium field: Traces of drawing media on paper with label and gilded frame
  • Wikipedia article: work classified by its own real-world art form
  • In Form: Drawing, lead paragraph
    Erased de Kooning Drawing is an early work of American artist Robert Rauschenberg, from 1953. This conceptual work presents an almost blank piece of paper in a gilded frame. It was created in 1953 when Rauschenberg erased a drawin
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