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Robert Rauschenberg
American, born 1925

Overcast III, 1963
Oil on canvas; screenprint on plexiglass

Purchase with funds from Alfred Austell Thorton in memory
of Leila Austell Thornton and Albert Edward Thornton, Sr., and
Sarah Miller Venable, and William Hoyt Venable, 1986.141

The simultaneity and layering of images in our
media-saturated world is the subject of this work.
Several of the images refer to the technological
developments of the early 1960s, including the
launch of the space craft Sigma 7 and the huge
radio transmitter.