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Robert E Indiana

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Robert E. Indiana (1928 - 2018) was active/lived in New York, Maine, Indiana.  Robert Indiana is known for Hard-edged signs-calligraphy, pop objects, sculpture.

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© 2001 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
 Born Robert Clark in New Castle Indiana, in 1928, Robert Indiana adopted the name of his native state as a pseudonymous surname early in his career. "There have been many American SIGN painters, but there never were any American sign PAINTERS." This exercise in emphasis sums up Robert Indiana's position in the world of contemporary art.  He has taken the everyday symbols of roadside America and made them into brilliantly colored geometric Pop Art*.

In his work he has been an ironic commentator on the American scene.  Both his graphics and his paintings have made cultural statements on life and, during the rebellious 1960s, pointed political statements as well.

Indiana studied first at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis* and then at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, New York.  From there he went to the School of Art Institute of Chicago* where he received a degree in 1953 and won a travelling fellowship to Europe.  In   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11897 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Robert E Indiana

   Publications  Book References:  132
Magazine References:  10

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10 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Robert E. Indiana
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Blam! Splat! Pop! June 2005 McNamara, Carole; Sean Ulmer Yes
ARTFORUM Pop Since 1949 October 2004 Alloway, L & Whiteley, N (intr Yes
Art & Auction Calendar October 2004 Editors, Art+Auction Yes
Art & Auction September Calendar September 2004 Editors, Art + Auction Yes
Art & Antiques A & A Update March 2004 Editors, Art & Antiques Yes
Art & Auction Second Coming June 2003 Tully, Judd Yes
Art & Auction Datebook March 2003 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
Scottsdale Life Love Letters February 2003 Abrams, Amy Yes
ARTnews Reviews February 2003 Editors, ARTnews Yes
American Art Review Portland Museum of Art June 2000 Levesque, Kristen Yes
132 Book References for Robert E. Indiana
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Siedell, Daniel A. American Paintings from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: An Institutional History in Pictures
(Exhibition catalog)		 9 Yes
2000 Ryan, Susan Elizabeth Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech 0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Madoff, Steven Henry (editor) Pop Art A Critical History 420 Yes
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Strueber, Michael (Director) Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies 118 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1995 McDonnell, Patricia Dictated By Life: Marsden Hartley And Robert Indiana 110 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Ferguson, Russell (editor) Hand-Painted Pop American Art in Transition 1955-62
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1993 Glimcher, Mildred Coenties Slip
(Exhibition catalog)		 76 Yes
1993 Henkes, Robert Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference 260 Yes
1993 Kostelanetz, Richard Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes 246 No
1992 Columbus Museum of Art A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 198 Yes
1992 Seitz, William C Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970 250 Yes
1991 Murken, Axel/Christa Murken Von der Avantgarde bis zur Postmoderne/die Malerei des 20 Jahrhunderts 358 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel Word As Image American Art 1960-1990
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 Yes
1990 Gustafson, Donna (others) Art What Thou Eat Images of Food in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1990 Livingstone, Marco Pop Art A Continuing History 271 Yes
1990 Maynes, Bill Robert Indiana Decade/Autoportrait
(Exhibition catalog)		 30 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Sandler, Irving American Art of the 1960s 412 Yes
1988 Wye, Deborah Commited to Print
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1987 Crane, Diana Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World 1940-1985 194 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Schultz, Douglas (Intro) 125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox 264 Yes
1987 Stich, Sidra Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s
(Exhibition catalog)		 280 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Plante, Michael; Christopher Campbell, Megan Fox, et all Definitive Statements: American Art 1964-66 Brown University Department of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 181 No
1986 Rose Art Museum Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings 147 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Kloss, William/C C Eldredge Treasures from the National Museu of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 254 Yes
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Miller, Dorothy C With an Eye to American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1984 Haskell, Barbara Blam, the Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1984 Hunter, Sam The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection 599 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1984 Watrous, James American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980 334 Yes
1983 Kaplan, Ellen Prints A Collector's Guide 253 No
1982 Johnson, Ellen H (editor) American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980 274 No
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Pope, Annemarie H Lawrence H Bloedel Collection Loan Exhibition/Whitney/Williams College
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Vogt, Paul Contemporary, Painting 134 Yes
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1980 Castleman, Riva Printed Art: A View of Two Decades 144 Yes
1980 Institute of Contemporary Art Urban Encounters Art, Architecture, Audience 64 Yes
1980 Janson, Anthony/A Ian Fraser 100 Masterpieces of Painting Indianapolis Museum of Art 295 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Diamonstein, Barbaralee Inside New York's Art World 380 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Haverstock, Mary Sayre An American Bestiary 248 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc) 730 No
1978 Adams, Hugh Art of the Sixties 80 Yes
1978 Hennessey, William J Artists Look at Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1978 Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall Art About Art 176 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1977 Societe des Expositions American Art in Belgium
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1977 Tobin, Robert/William Kate Robert Indiana
(Exhibition catalog)		 59 Yes
1976 Allentown Art Museum The American Flag in the Art of Our Country
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 Yes
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Baro, Gene 30 Years of American Printmaking Including 20th National Print Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1976 Cummings, Paul American Drawings The 20th Century 207 No
1976 Glubok, Shirley The Art of America Since World War II 48 No
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1975 Cone, Michele The Roots and Routes of Art in the 20th Century 252 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Hawkes, Elizabeth H (Curator and Essay) American Painting and Sculpture: Delaware Art Museum 182 Yes
1975 Legg, Alicia American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA 84 Yes
1975 Wolfram, Eddie History of Collage An Anthology of Collage, Assemblage & Event Sructures 192 Yes
1974 Alloway, Lawrence American Pop Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 146 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Dallas Museum of Fine Art Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965
(Exhibition catalog)		 174 No
1974 Gidley, Mick Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections 58 No
1974 Lieberman, Herbert (ed) Artists/USA 1974-75: Guide to Contemporary American Art 190 No
1974 Mogelon, Alex; Norman Laliberte Art in Boxes 240 Yes
1973 Bennett, Ian A History of American Painting 240 Yes
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 Yes
1973 Institute for the Arts, Rice U Gray is the Color Grisaille Painting 13th-20th Centuries
(Exhibition catalog)		 171 No
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1973 University of Kansas Museum American Drawings and Watercolors 80 No
1973 Van Der Marck, Jan American Art Third Quarter Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 138 Yes
1973 Wilmerding, John The Genius of American Painting 352 Yes
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1972 Kahmen, Volker Eroticism in Contemporary Art 282 Yes
1972 Mondale, Joan Adams Politics in Art 72 Yes
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1971 Calas, Nicolas and Elena Icons and Images of the Sixties 347 No
1970 Hope, Henry Radford (Essay) The American Scene 1900-1970 An Exhibition of twentieth century painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 119 No
1970 Time-Life Books, Editors American Painting 1900-1970 192 Yes
1970 Weinhardt, Carl J Jr (editor) Indianapolis Museum of Art Catalogue of American Paintings 166 No
1969 Galleria Civica D'Arte Moderna New-Dada e Pop Art Newyorkesi Introducioni e Catalogo
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1969 Russell, John/Suzi Gablik Pop Art Redefined
(Exhibition catalog)		 240 Yes
1968 McCoubrey, John and R Indiana Robert Indiana
(Exhibition catalog)		 63 Yes
1968 Sweeney, James Johnson Signals in the Sixties
(Exhibition catalog)		 1968 No
1968 University of Oklahoma East Coast-West Coast Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1968 Weller, Allen S The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art 185 No
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Hirsch, Richard Sources for Tomorrow: 50 American Paintings 1946-1966 James Michener Collection of Allentown Art Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 342 No
1967 Nebraska Centennial Commission Nebraska Art Today A Centenial Invitational Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 84 No
1967 Solomon, Alan American Painting Now (Montreal Expo/U S Artists) 24 Yes
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1966 Hunter, Sam (chapter on US) New Art Around the World 510 Yes
1966 Lippard, Lucy R Pop Art 216 Yes
1966 Pellegrini, Aldo New Tendencies in Art 320 Yes
1965 Amaya, Mario Pop Art . . . And After 148 Yes
1965 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters 141 Yes
1965 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 210 No
1965 Whitney Museum A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends
(Exhibition catalog)		 52 No
1963 Brandeis University New Directions in American Painting: A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1963 Lipman, Jean (editor) What Is American in American Art 180 Yes
1963 Miller, Dorothy (editor) Americans 1963
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 No
1961 Seitz, William C The Art of Assemblage
(Exhibition catalog)		 176 Yes
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