The death of the irrepressibly innovative artist Robert Rauschenberg on Monday marks a loss for the entire world of art. Tyler Green rounds up a list of obituaries and more for accounts on the man. In D.C., the loss is acutely felt, owing to his many fine works in the national collections this city hosts, but that should also serve as a warm reminder about his life and works.

District viewers were very recently graced with a show of Rauschenberg's work: "Let the World In", a collection of the artist's prints, which ran through March. One point underscored by that show is that Rauschenberg was fiercely inventive even working within one genre. He was, of course, comfortable using traditional techniques like lithography, but he also dabbled in digital image manipulation. He combined so many sorts of printmaking techniques to arrive at a single piece that in many cases "print" is the only accurate way to describe the work.

For viewers who'd like to see a Rauschenberg now — or at least to know where his work is likely to pop up in the future — here are some resources:

» The National Gallery of Art: The nation's chief art museum has an enormous collection of works by Rauschenberg. The museum's holdings include two drawings, three portfolios, seven paintings, a couple dozen sculptures, many dozen photographs, and more prints than you could shake a stick at.

"We remember his international project called the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, which culminated in a colorful multimedia exhibition here at the Gallery in 1991," said Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery of Art. "And we just closed Let the World In, a comprehensive show of his prints, the title of which came from a statement by art historian Leo Steinberg referring to the artist’s integration of everyday objects and representation at a time when abstraction dominated."

Image of Robert Rauschenberg's 1988 photogravure, Soviet/American Array III, published by Universal Limited Art Editions (Bay Shore, New York) and courtesy of the National Gallery of Art.

» The Smithsonian American Art Museum: The museum owns 40 works by Rauschenberg, including serigraphs and lithos, and fortunately for Rauschenberg fans, the museum's best piece is currently hanging on the wall. Reservoir, one of the artist's "combines," can be found on the third floor in the museum's modern and contemporary galleries.

Rauschenberg liked to take the ways he thought about art and bring them into the art as subject matter itself. One clock he incorporated in the piece was set when he started to make it; the other clock shows the time when he finished. He's punching the time clock as he arrives and leaves — there's nothing sacred about the process, Rauschenberg seems to be saying, even if elsewhere in the piece his concerns are highly formal.

(Disclosure: This writer has written in the past for SAAM's art blog.)

» The Hirshhorn Museum: Most of the works by Rauschenberg in the Hirshhorn's collection date to 1969. In that year, Rauschenberg worked on a series related to the Apollo lunar landings.

Arena II is an example from the "Stoned Moon Series," which Rauschenberg completed after NASA offered the artist a unique opportunity. No, NASA didn't launch Rauschenberg into outer space — but as a next-best-thing, they invited him to the Kennedy Space Center to see the Apollo 11 launch. These lithographs and prints were a direct response.

The Hirshhorn also holds a few of the artist's paintings, including the combine Dam, a piece that was featured in a retrospective that visited both the Met in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in L.A.