Rauschenberg and Weil met at the Academy Julian in Paris in 1948. After leaving Paris, Rauschenberg followed Weil to BMC where both often collaborated together. They’re most famous collaboration series was a set of blueprint pieces produced from 1949-1951 using a monoprint technique first experimented by Weil, and then elaborated on with Rauschenberg. Together the two created direct cyanotypes, a printing process with an outcome of a particular, deep blue photographic image. In this collection, the process has been used on the human form in multiple positions as well as other figures and objects like leaves. This body of work was collaboratively made after the couple’s time at BMC in their shared New York apartment that doubled as their artists’ studio.