Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark) (1928 – 2018) was an American artist associated with the pop art movement. His "LOVE" print, first created for the Museum of Modern Art's Christmas card in 1965, was the basis for his 1970 Love sculpture and the widely distributed 1973 United States Postal Service "LOVE" stamp. He created works in media including paper (silk screen) and Cor-ten steel.
Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like EAT, HUG, and, his best known example, LOVE. In his EAT series, the word blares in paint or light bulbs against a neutral background; he regularly paired “EAT” with “DIE”. In a major career milestone, the architect Philip Johnson commissioned an EAT sign for the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. The sign was turned off one day after the opening of the fair because visitors believed it to mark a restaurant. Andy Warhol's contribution to the fair was also removed that day.
Between 1989 and 1994, Indiana painted a series of 18 canvases inspired by the shapes and numbers in the war motifs paintings that Marsden Hartley did in Berlin between 1913 and 1915.
Indiana was also a theatrical set and costume designer, such as the 1976 production by the Santa Fe Opera of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, based on the life of suffragist Susan B. Anthony.
Indiana's best known image is the word Love in upper-case letters, arranged in a square with a tilted letter "O". The iconography first appeared in a series of poems originally written in 1958, in which Indiana stacked LO and VE on top of one another, then in a painting with the words "Love is God". The red/green/blue image was then created for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964. It was put on an eight-cent U.S. Postal Service postage stamp in 1973, the first of their regular series of "love stamps".
The first serigraph/silk screen of "Love" was printed as part of an exhibition poster for Stable Gallery in 1966.
In 1977, he created a Hebrew version with the four-letter word Ahava (אהבה "love" in Hebrew) using Cor-ten steel, for the Israel Museum Art Garden in Jerusalem.
In 2008, Indiana created an image similar to his iconic LOVE, but this time showcasing the word "HOPE", and donated all proceeds from the sale of reproductions of his image to Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign, raising in excess of $1,000,000. A stainless steel sculpture of HOPE was unveiled outside Denver's Pepsi Center during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Editions of the sculpture have been released and sold internationally and the artist himself has called HOPE "Love's close relative".
For Valentine's Day 2011, Indiana created a similar variation on LOVE for Google, which was displayed in place of the search engine site's normal logo.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Robert Indiana or assignee. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like EAT, HUG, and, his best known example, LOVE. In his EAT series, the word blares in paint or light bulbs against a neutral background; he regularly paired “EAT” with “DIE”. In a major career milestone, the architect Philip Johnson commissioned an EAT sign for the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. The sign was turned off one day after the opening of the fair because visitors believed it to mark a restaurant. Andy Warhol's contribution to the fair was also removed that day.
Between 1989 and 1994, Indiana painted a series of 18 canvases inspired by the shapes and numbers in the war motifs paintings that Marsden Hartley did in Berlin between 1913 and 1915.
Indiana was also a theatrical set and costume designer, such as the 1976 production by the Santa Fe Opera of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, based on the life of suffragist Susan B. Anthony.
Indiana's best known image is the word Love in upper-case letters, arranged in a square with a tilted letter "O". The iconography first appeared in a series of poems originally written in 1958, in which Indiana stacked LO and VE on top of one another, then in a painting with the words "Love is God". The red/green/blue image was then created for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964. It was put on an eight-cent U.S. Postal Service postage stamp in 1973, the first of their regular series of "love stamps".
The first serigraph/silk screen of "Love" was printed as part of an exhibition poster for Stable Gallery in 1966.
In 1977, he created a Hebrew version with the four-letter word Ahava (אהבה "love" in Hebrew) using Cor-ten steel, for the Israel Museum Art Garden in Jerusalem.
In 2008, Indiana created an image similar to his iconic LOVE, but this time showcasing the word "HOPE", and donated all proceeds from the sale of reproductions of his image to Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign, raising in excess of $1,000,000. A stainless steel sculpture of HOPE was unveiled outside Denver's Pepsi Center during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Editions of the sculpture have been released and sold internationally and the artist himself has called HOPE "Love's close relative".
For Valentine's Day 2011, Indiana created a similar variation on LOVE for Google, which was displayed in place of the search engine site's normal logo.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Robert Indiana or assignee. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.
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| Mr Robert Indiana |
Mr Robert Indiana, the sculptor
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| 1959-60, FRENCH ATOMIC BOMB |
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| 1960-62, BAR |
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| 1960-62, CUBA |
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| 1960-62, JEANNE D’ARC |
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| 1960-62, MATE |
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| 1960, MOON |
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| 1960, OWL |
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| 1960, SUN AND MOON |
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| 1960, ZIG |
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| 1960-61, WALL OF CHINA |
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| 1961, WOMB |
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| 1962, EAT |
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| 1962, FOUR |
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| 1962, HUB |
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| 1963-69, FLAGELLANT |
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| 1964-2007, THE ELECTRIC EAT |
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| 1966-2006, LOVE WALL |
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| 1966-99, LOVE |
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| 1966-2000, THE ELECTRIC LOVE |
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| 1972-2001, ART |
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| 1977, AHAVA |
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| 1980-2001, NUMBERS ONE THROUGH ZERO |
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| 1981, MONARCHY |
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| 1984, FIVE |
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| 1992, ICARUS |
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| 1993, FOUR STAR |
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| 1997, EVE |
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| 1998-2006, AMOR |
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| 2000, COMET |
Robert Indiana, the painter
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| 1959, SOURCE II |
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| 1960, TERRE HAUTE |
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| 1960-61, THE TRIUMPH OF TIRA |
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| 1961, A DIVORCED MAN HAS NEVER BEEN THE PRESIDENT |
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| 1962, DOWN |
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| 1962, THE DIETARY |
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| 1963, MOTHER AND FATHER |
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| 1964, LOVE |
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| 1964-66, THE SIXTH AMERICAN DREAM (USA 666) |
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| 1965, ZERO |
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| 1965, ONE |
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| 1965, TWO |
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| 1965, THREE |
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| 1965, FOUR |
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| 1965, FIVE |
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| 1965, SIX |
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| 1965, SEVEN |
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| 1965, EIGHT |
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| 1965, NINE |
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| 1970, ART (WHITE RED BLUE) |
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| 1971, DECADE AUTO PORTRAIT |
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| 1989-94, KvF XIII (Hartley Elegy) |
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| 1989-94, KvF XVII (Hartley Elegy) |
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| 1995, LOVE |
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| 1998, THE SEVENTH AMERICAN DREAM |
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| 1999, MARILYN, MARILYN, |
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| 2000, OCTOBER IS IN THE WIND |
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| 2001, THE NINTH AMERICAN DREAM |
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