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Robert Indiana (American, 1928)
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Robert Indiana
from Polygons (Number 6)
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Robert Indiana
Love: Enflame from The Book of Love 1996
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Robert Indiana
My love, My Love is Gone to You from The Book of Love 1996
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Robert Indiana
Thirst 1996
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Robert Indiana
To Draw a Straight Line from The Book of Love 1996
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Robert Indiana
Wherefore the Punctuation of the Heart from The Book of Love 1996
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Biography |
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1928 |
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Born: New Castle, IN |
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1953 - 1954 |
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B.F.A. at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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1954 |
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Attended the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland on the George Brown Travelling Fellowship |
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1956 |
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Moved to New York |
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1964 |
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Appeared in the Andy Warhol film Eat |
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1970 |
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Recieved Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA |
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1973 |
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Designed the immensely popular multi-colored "Love" on a United States postage stamp |
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1977 |
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Awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts by University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN |
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1981 |
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Recieved Honorary Doctoral Degree from Colby College, Waterville, MA |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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"Pressing Issues", Des Moines Art center, Des Moines, IA
"Pop and Op", Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY |
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2007 |
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"Art Market Now", The Columns, Seoul, South Korea |
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2006 |
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"Life as a Legend - Marilyn Monroe", Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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2005 |
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"Made in USA – ausgewählte Graphik", Galerie & Edition Bode GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany
"Summer of Love Art of the Psychedelic Era", Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
" Do it yourself - Positionen von den sechziger Jahren bis Heute", Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
" 40 Jahre Galerie Thomas", Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany |
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2004 - 2005 |
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"Robert Indiana 66: Paintings and Sculpture", Price Tower Arts Center's, Bartlesville, OK |
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2003 |
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"Letters, Words and Numbers", L & M Gallery, New York, NY |
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1998 |
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Retrospective, Musée D'Art Moderne Contemporain, Nice, France |
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1991 |
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"Prints Retrospective", Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY |
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1990 |
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"Prints as Process", Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, MA |
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1986 |
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"Vinalhaven Press 1985-1986", Portland Museum of Art, MA |
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1982 |
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"Indiana's Indianas: A 25 Year Retrospective of Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection of Robert Indiana", National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washingtonm, D.C. |
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1978 |
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"Art about Art", Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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1977 - 1978 |
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Museum retrospective travels to University Art Museum at University of Texas, Austin, TX; the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, VA; the Indianapoilis Museum of Art, Indiana, IN; the Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY; the Art Center, South Bend, Indiana, IN |
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1976 |
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"Thirty Years of American Art", Brooklyn Museum of Art, curated by Gene Baro, Brooklyn, NY |
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1975 - 1976 |
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Galerie Denise Rene, New York, NY (solo) |
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1975 |
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"American Art Since 1945", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1972 |
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"The Modern Image", High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Galerie Denise Rene, New York, NY (solo) |
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1969 - 1970 |
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"The Prints and Posters of Robert Indiana", New England tour originates at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. Travels to Colby College of Art Museum, Waterville, ME; the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; and Brandeis University, Waltham, MA |
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1969 |
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"70 Years of American Art", Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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1968 |
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First one-man museum exhibition travels to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonia, TX and the Herron Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
"Word and Image", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1967 |
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Ninth Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil |
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1966 |
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"LOVE" Exhibition at Stable Gallery, New York, NY
"1966 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture", Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Galerie Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf, Germany
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany |
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1965 |
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"Word and Image", Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
"1965 Annual Exhibition of American Paintings", Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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1964 |
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Stable Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1963 |
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"Americans 1963", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Exhibits with Richard Stankeiwicz at the Walker Art Center, Mineapolis, MI (The show travels to The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA)
"New Realists", Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY |
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1962 |
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Stable Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1961 |
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"The Art of Assemblage", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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Selected Public Collections: |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, The Netherlands
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Detroit Institute of Art, MI
Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Brandeis Museum, Waltham, MA
Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, New York
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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Literature |
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2006 |
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Wilmerding John, Pissarro Joachim, Robert Pincus-Witten and Peter Halley. Robert Indiana: The Artist and His Work 1955 - 2005. New York: Rizzoli, 2006. |
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2000 |
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Ryan, Susan E. Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech. Conneticut: Yale University Press, 2000
Pissarro, Joachim, Depotte, Helene. Robert Indiana: Retrospective 1958-1998. Washington: University of Washington Press, 2000 |
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1999 |
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Indiana, Robert. Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana. Portland: Portland Museum of Art, 1999 |
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1992 |
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Sheehan, Susan . Robert Indiana Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne 1951-1991. New York: Susan Sheehan Gallery, 1992 |
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1990 |
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Carl J Weinhardt. Robert Indiana. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990 |
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1969 |
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Indiana, Robert. Robert Indiana: Graphics. Indiana: Department of Art of Saint Mary's College, 1969 |
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1968 |
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Indiana, Robert. Robert Indiana, Conneticut: Falcon Press, 1968 |
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