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Robert Indiana

Robert Indiana (born September 13, 1928) is an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement. Indiana was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana.

Indiana moved to New York City in 1954 and joined the pop art movement, using distinctive imagery drawing on commercial art approaches blended with existentialism, that gradually moved toward what Indiana calls "sculptural poems". Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like "EAT", "HUG", and "LOVE". Indiana has been a theatrical set and costume designer, such as the 1976 production by the Santa Fe Opera of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, based on the life of... (more)
suffragist Susan B. Anthony. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Indiana produced a series of Peace Paintings, which were exhibited in New York in 2004.

Despite his early success at the center of the art world, Indiana retreated to rural obscurity in later life. Indiana has lived as a recluse in the island town of Vinalhaven, Maine since 1978.
Indiana - AmorAmor • Screenprint
Indiana - Decade Autoportrait (Skid Row)Decade Autoportrait (Skid Row) • Lithograph
Indiana - Heliotherapy LoveHeliotherapy Love • Screenprint