Joseph Hirshhorn's Birthday 1979

"Joseph Hirshhorn's Birthday" is a 1979 silkscreen print on paper by American artist Robert Rauschenberg. The artwork is a collage of different images and textures, including a photograph of Joseph Hirshhorn, the founder of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. The work is characteristic of Rauschenberg's Combines, a genre of art that incorporated found objects and images into his compositions. It is considered an example of Pop Art and combines elements of abstraction with representational imagery.