Artist Robert Rauschenberg designing unicorn costume for his sister Janet, for a Mardi Gras celebration, modeled by fellow student Inga Lauterstein, Black Mountain College, North Carolina, 1949
Photo:
Trude Guermonprez
Documentary Photographs
BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE, 1949
Rauschenberg enrolled at Black Mountain in October 1948 following fellow artist and future wife Susan Weil to seek instruction from former Bauhaus professor Joseph Albers. As students, Rauschenberg and Weil gained a reputation for collecting scrap materials while on garbage duty, turning a chore into an envied discovery expedition. This kind of salvaged matter would be integrated into the Combines (1954–64).
Via the Rauschenberg Foundation