Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil - The Blueprints, 1950

In the summer of 1949, Susan Weil introduced her partner Robert Rauschenberg to the process of exposing blueprint paper at her family home in Connecticut. What began as a playful experiment rooted in Weil’s childhood memories soon transformed into a striking series of large-scale works. Together they laid sheets of light-sensitive paper in the sun, arranging objects and human figures to capture fleeting silhouettes and delicate traces of presence preserved in deep blue. This new publication brings together the complete collaborative works from this brief but influential period, along with unseen photographs by Wallace Kirkland, who documented their time in New York in images that reflect the erasure women artists so often faced, even within their own stories.