ROBERT INDIANA
"HOPE IV" FROM, "FOUR SEASONS OF HOPE" GOLD
SILKSCREEN ON COVENTRY ARCHIVAL RAG PAPER
SHEET SIZE: 35 X 29.5 INCHES
Edition Size: 82, plus proofs
YEAR: 2012
Published by American Image Art
SIGNATURE: Pencil signed by auto-pen, dated, and numbered edition of 82 as issued
Edition number showing will not be the same as shown in the images
THE ARTWORK IS IN MINT CONDITION

Robert Indiana was an American Pop artist whose work drew inspiration from signs, billboards, and commercial logos
He is best known for his series of LOVE paintings, which employed bold and colorful letterforms to spell out the word love
Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the love generation and hippies, he once explained
It was a spiritual concept
It isn't a sculpture of love any longer
It's become the very theme of love itself
Born Robert Earl Clark on September 13, 1928, in New Castle, IN, he adopted the name of his home state after serving in the US military
Indiana went on to receive his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954
Following the advice of his friend Ellsworth Kelly, the artist relocated to New York, setting up a studio in the Coenties Slip neighborhood of Lower Manhattan
It was here that Indiana became acquainted with a number of prominent artists, including Agnes Martin, Jack Youngerman, and James Rosenquist
Over the following decades, his work became increasingly popular, with both his LOVE and HOPE motifs transformed into a number of public sculptures
In September 2013, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE, the artists first retrospective in New York
Indian died on May 19, 2018, in Vinalhaven, ME
Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the National Gallery in Washington, DC, among others<

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