Title: Love letters
First published: 2002
Description: The opening exhibition of the new QCC Gallery is a highly important display of some 50 works by Robert Rauschenberg, most of which have never before been publicly exhibited. This is a very personal collection, for every work in it was a gift from Robert Rauschenberg to Terry van Brunt, once the artist’s chief assistant and a companion. Assembled as a private collection by the man who was perhaps the central focus of Rauschenberg’s life for much of the 70s and 80s, it exposes a side of Rauschenberg ignored by mainstream museums. Alternately whimsical and moving, this collection reveals a clear thematic coherence behind what is generally understood as Rauschenberg’s random juxtaposition of collage elements.
Subjects: American Art, Art, Art collections, Art, American, Exhibitions, Friends and associates, Gay artists, Homosexuality in art, Male friendship, Private collections, Rauschenberg, Robert
Places: United States
People: Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), Terry Van Brunt
Time periods: 20th century