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Eternal Hexagon
Robert Indiana, 1928 - 2018
Indiana, Robert
United States
1928 - 2018
Male
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1964
1964
1964
1900-2000, 20th century, Charles Rand Penney Collection, hexagon, serigraphs
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[Gallery label text 2013]
Born Robert Clark, Indiana took the name of his home state to emphasize that his essential subject was American visual culture. He describes himself as a “sign painter.”
External Hexagon is one of Indiana’s many precise geometric forms based on numbers. The hexagon, a flat shape with six sides and six angles, is a fundamental organizing structure in nature, and an important symbol in many religions. In the hands of a pop artist who is engaged in commercial graphics, this reference to eternity is ironic.
1975.335.2
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
glossy
8x10
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75.335.2DI1
digital image
12/7/2001
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Love
Robert Indiana, 1928 - 2018
Indiana, Robert
United States
1928 - 2018
Male
32 x 23 15/16 in. (81.3 x 60.8 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1966
1966
1966
1900-2000, 20th century, serigraphs
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Gallery label text 2013:
In 1964, Mr. Indiana designed the ''Love'' graphic for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art. The logo took off, and in May 1966 he had a show of variations on the theme at the Stable Gallery in Manhattan.
The graphic became central to the 1960's visual vocabulary, appearing on clothes, jewelry, towels and rugs. The 1973 postage stamp with the logo was one of the best-selling stamps ever, the first of the US Postal Service regular series of “love stamps.”
Mr. Indiana said he received only $1,000 for the design. (He had failed to copyright the logo, and so did not profit as it appeared on countless coffee cups and T-shirts.) The logo did not endear Mr. Indiana to the art establishment, and his star faded in inverse proportion to the success of ''Love.''
1993.22
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
93.22SL1
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2 x 2
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8 x 10
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93.22DI1
digital image
12/5/2001
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One
Robert Indiana, 1928 - 2018
Indiana, Robert
United States
1928 - 2018
Male
26 x 20 in. (66 x 50.8 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1968
1968
1968
1900-2000, 20th century, blue, circle, green, numbers, red, serigraphs
Print
Gallery label text 2013:
Indiana’s attention to American themes, use of bright, vibrating color and formal configurations marked him as one of the central figures of American Pop art. His work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like EAT, HUG, and, his best known example, LOVE.
Indiana was drawn to the existential aspects of numbers, which he regarded as the basic elements structuring our daily lives and representing the spectrum of existence, 1 representing birth and 0 standing between life and death.
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2002.25
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Memorial Art Gallery
7/12/2001
2002.25DI1
digital image
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2002.25DI2
digital image
2 x 2
11/20/2002
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2002.25SL1
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