Collection marks perhaps the earliest investigation of what Rauschenberg called «pedestrian color,» a strategy inspired
by the way that different colors of
clothing interacted in a crowded street or room: «Someone might be wearing a very bright tie or green shoes,» he explained, «but somehow it was all
absorbed because all of these things, even though they were individually brilliant, were accepted in a content [sic] that made them both independent and neutral.»