Artist: INDIANA, ROBERT (b. 1928)
Title: THE HARTLEY ELEGIES - KvF VII
Medium: SCREENPRINT
Year: 1991
Size: 60 x 60 INCHES
Edition: 33|50

Artist Information: Robert Indiana’s Hartley Elegies (1989-1994) is a series of 18 paintings, grouped into three formats, rectangular, diamond and tondo. A poignant meditation on identity and loss, they are the most recent of his homages to American artists and poets, and were inspired by Marsden Hartley’s War Motif series, which Hartley executed as a tribute to the young German soldier Karl von Freyburg, who died during World War I and with whom Hartley had a deep friendship. Indiana employs Hartley’s stylized visual language throughout the Elegies, while reinvesting them with additional content and meaning. He weaves references to Hartley and von Freyburg with allusions to himself, to places and historical events with overlapping symbolic meanings, forming a web linking his life to Hartley’s. Indiana’s attention to American themes, use of vibrating bright colour and simple formal configurations and shaped canvases marked him as one of the central figures of American Pop art.




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