His wife and daughter will join him by the fall. Settles in Los Angeles and works briefly as an illustrator for a Westwood newspaper and later as a packing clerk at a bathing suit factory where he meets Pat Pearman, an assistant designer, who convinces him that he has talent after seeing his drawings.Īpril: Rauschenberg's father is promoted to line foreman at Gulf States Utilities and relocates to Lafayette, Louisiana. Hitchhikes from San Francisco to Port Arthur, Texas. Receives an honorable discharge from the U.S. Even though he has enjoyed drawing all his life, Rauschenberg now realizes for the first time that he can become an artist. During this time, he visits the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino-his first visit to an art museum-where he discovers original oil paintings, including Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy (1770) and Thomas Lawrence’s Sarah Barrett Moulton: Pinkie (1794), previously seen only as reproductions in books and on playing cards. Experiences with traumatized sailors strengthen his antiwar convictions. Attends public schools in Port Arthur and graduates from Thomas Jefferson High School, where he is active in the school theater as a costume and set designer.įall 1945–Winter 1946: Trains as a neuropsychiatric technician in the Navy Hospital Corps, while stationed at Camp Pendleton, San Diego.
Raised by a deeply religious mother, Rauschenberg aspires to become a preacher at age thirteen but decides against it when he realizes the fundamentalist Church of Christ to which his family belongs forbids dancing, one of his passions.
Develops a love for animals and has many pets, including ducks, rabbits, frogs, and a goat. As a child, creates an elaborately decorated environment in his room, drawing images on the walls, painting red fleurs-de-lis all over the woodwork and furniture, and building a structure of crates filled with jars and boxes of found objects to divide the room that he shares with his only sibling, Janet, born in 1936. The only son of Dora Carolina Matson and Ernest Rauschenberg, an employee of Gulf States Utilities, a local light and power company.
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