CORE

Inscriptions

Printed, upper center: NASSAU ST / ONE WAY / ONE / PINE ST / PUBLIC SHELTER / sTOP [on signpost]; priinted, courier, upper right: NY skyline (day) [on polaroid]; printed, courier, upper left: water / vents [on polaroid, oriented diagonally iwth left atonp] printed, courier, lower center: staue of liberty [on polaroid]

Label

The title of Robert Rauchenberg’s screenprint CORE is an acronym for the Congress of Racial Equality, which was actively fighting for desegregation legislation in the 1960s. Rauschenberg employs a wide array of images, including depictions of John F. Kennedy, the Statue of Liberty, a Native American, and a Civil War soldier—all clustered together to represent a collective American experience. In this visual response to CORE and the historical struggle for equality in the United States, Rauschenberg juxtaposes moments of national glory against past lows and ongoing struggles. The layering of transparent images and abstracted yet shapes conveys tension within the work. Rauschenberg evokes the feeling of both success and defeat, clarity and a general lack of cohesive certainty. These juxtaposed sentiments ultimately characterized the national mindset of the 1960s.

From the 2020 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 99, When Art Intersects History, curated by Allison Carrey '20, Class of 1954 Intern

Course History

SART 15, Drawing I, Gerald Auten, Spring 2012

PHIL 23, The Philosophy of Art, John Kulvicki, Winter 2014

Anthropology 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Spring 2023

Studio Art 27.01, Printmaking I, Abra Ancliffe, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

A Self-Portrait of America, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 18-September 16, 1984.

A Space for Dialogue 99, When Art Intersects History, Allison Carey, Class of 2020, Class of 1954 Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 7-April 26, 2020.

Art of the 60's and 70's, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont, July 11-September 18, 2005.

Hopkins Center 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Artists-In-Residence at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 12-May 22, 1988.

Reading Images: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg, Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 21-November 30, 2009.

Recent American Graphics, Art 53, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 18-May 25, 1980.

Second Stage of Modernism: Art from 1945 to the Present, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall, Churchill P. Lathrop, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 6-August 16, 1987.

Signspotting: Twentieth-Century Photographs, Prints, and Paintings from the Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 30-August 26, 2001.

The Art of Spectatorship: A History of Viewing from the Renaissance to the Present Day, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19-April 6, 2008.

The Expanding Grid, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-August 27, 2012.

Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, March 7-July 6, 2014; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30-December 21, 2014; Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, February 7-May 10, 2015.

Publication History

Essi Ronkko, Reading Images: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg [brochure], Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, cover ill.

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p.177, no.163.

Allison Carey, A Space for Dialogue 99, When Art Intersects History, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2020.

Provenance

Lawrence Stanton Richmond (Class of 1930, 1909-1978); bequeathed to present collection, 1978.

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