Robert
Indiana United States
b. 1928 "The
Wadsworth Antheneum: Ten Works
by Ten Artists," 1964
Silkscreen
24 x 20 in.
Sweeney Gallery Permanent Collection
64.1.9
Robert Indiana is a painter of signs. Born Robert Clark
in New Castle Indiana, his early works were inspired by traffic signs,
trademarks, commercial stencils and machines. He melded these influences
to create the unique signs of his paintings that reference both his
personal visual memories and the experience of the modern American
landscape. His clean, crisp style layers letters, words, numbers and
shapes in vivid colors giving the images an element of formal abstraction.
