Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
Stanford University
328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Tel: 650.721.1592

In 1969, American artist Robert Rauschenberg was invited by the NASA Art Program to document the launch of Apollo 11, the first manned spaceflight to the moon. Rauschenberg produced Stoned Moon, a series of 34 large-format lithographs replete with scenes of astronauts, complex machinery, and various regional ephemera.

This exhibition features a number of the Stoned Moon lithographs together with 20 rarely seen collages and drawings, photographs of the artist visiting NASA’s facilities, photographs by Malcolm Lubliner of Rauschenberg working on the Stoned Moon lithographs at Gemini GEL IN Los Angeles, correspondence between the artist and the NASA Art Program, and more.

©Robert Rauschenberg, The Stoned Moon project, Los Angeles, photograph by Malcolm Lubliner 1969