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
Numbered 9/100
Label attached to the verso
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
- some abrasions and scratches to the frame; light stains present.
Dimensions
- measures the frame; plate measures 7" W x 6.75" H.
- Item not examined outside of mounting
Item #
ITMGD05212
