Prior to that chance meeting with Grosman, Rauschenberg had just begun to experiment with printmaking in the form of silkscreen. She told him he was destined to work on stone, referring to lithography. Bill Goldston, ULAE’s director and master printer later persuaded him to use the intaglio process, as it would allow him new possibilites in printmaking. In the selected prints to the right, intaglio takes the forefront. He not only used this process, but pushed its limits. This creative and collaborative process between the printers at ULAE and Rauschenberg has flourished over the years.

ULAE, a fine art print publisher, was established in 1957 by Grosman in a small cottage on Long Island. Together Rauschenberg and ULAE developed the intaglio process, producing a color photogravure and finding a way to incorporate the cracked texture of his paintings into his prints, thus breaking the barriers of modern printmaking.