This white short-sleeved t-shirt has colorful screen-printed graphics, green chinese characters, and illustrations arranged asymmetrically on the torso. Two yellow rectangles, one vertical and another horizontal, are on top of each other and have white-ink ilustrations of feathers, stylized people, and a yellow box kite with squares and a star curving in the wind, protruding from underneath. The top box has green chinese characters on the left and right of the edge, and a line of characters where the two rectangles meet. This particular line of text overlaps across the blue box to the left which overlaps with the two yellow boxes, making a faded green effect. In the blue boxes are illustrations of people in white ink, and a faded red screenprint above that, laid inside the blue and overlapping with the yellow.

Object Timeline

1984	Work on this object began.
2020	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2022	We acquired this object.
2024	You found it!

T-shirt, 1984

This is a T-shirt. It was designed by Robert Rauschenberg and made for WilliWear Productions. It is dated 1984 and we acquired it in 2022. Its medium is screenprint on cotton. It is a part of the department.

This object was donated by Anonymous. It is credited Gift of Anonymous Donor.

Its dimensions are

H x W: Approx. 76.2 × 50.8 cm (30 × 20 in.)

Cite this object as

T-shirt, 1984; Designed by Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925–2008); Made for WilliWear Productions; screenprint on cotton; H x W: Approx. 76.2 × 50.8 cm (30 × 20 in.); Gift of Anonymous Donor; 2022-37-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Willi Smith: Street Couture.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4wUtct/
Accession Number 2022-37-1
Object ID 2318802501