Robert Indiana Aquatint Etching "ART", 1992

Item Details

Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark, American, 1928 – 2018)
ART, 1992
Color etching with aquatint on paper
Signed to the lower right margin
Numbered 59/100
Title and edition number inscribed to lower left margin
Labels to verso include framing label and work information

Robert Indiana studied at the Heron School of Art in Indianapolis, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York then earned his degree from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 1953. After receiving a European travel fellowship in 1954, he attended Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Indiana is renown for taking simple, everyday words such as “EAT”, “LOVE” and “DIE” then using graphic lettering in bright primary colors to encourage viewers to see the commonplace in a new way. His “LOVE” series sprang from a 1964 commission to turn a closed Church of Christ, Scientist church into an art gallery then was used as the Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art (New York) in 1965. So recognized as an image of the Pop Art era that it was adopted as a United States postage stamp in 1973.

Condition

- accretion to glazing surface; edge wear to frame; slight corner join separation and bow to acrylic glazing along upper edge, where it is not flush with frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sheet size measures 15.0" W x 15.75" H.

Item #

ITMG267703