Representative work by Robert Indiana
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Robert Indiana

1928–2018 · American · Based in Vinalhaven, Maine, USA (d. 2018)

  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Hard-edge Painting
  • Pop Sculpture
  • Word Art

Robert Indiana built a highly graphic practice from signs, numbers, words and American vernacular design. His best-known image, LOVE, emerged from an earlier vocabulary of stenciled language and hard-edged geometry and eventually circulated far beyond the conventional art world.

Painting; sculpture; printmaking

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Major Works

  • 1961The American Dream I
  • 1962EAT/DIE
  • 1966LOVE
  • 1963The Demuth American Dream No. 5
  • 1965–66The Confederacy series
  • 1980–2001Numbers One through Zero
  • 1972ART
  • 1964EAT
  • 2008HOPE
  • 1962The Melville Triptych

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