Biography

American (1928)

Robert Indiana, born Robert Clark, was born in Indiana in 1928. He moved
to New York in 1954 and joined the Pop Art movement. He used distinct
imagery drawing on commercial art but gravitated towards a combination of
sculpture and poetry. Indiana held his first solo exhibit in 1962 at a gallery in
New York. He is best known for his use of simple and iconic images, bold
colors, numbers and short words. "LOVE" became his most famous creation
starting in 1964 when he created a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art.
He later created a stamp in 1973 with the same image for the United States
Postal Service. His "LOVE" sculptures can be found a various locations
throughout the U.S. Indiana also created the same image in Hebrew ("Ahava") in
1977. A large scuplture of the piece stands in Jerusalem at the Israel
Museum. His most recent creation, similar to "LOVE," was in 2008 when he
constructed "HOPE" for the Barack Obama campaign. All the proceeds were donated
to help fund Obama's presidential campaign. His works are in the permanent
collections of numerous museums including the Whitney, the Museum of
Modern Art, and the Carnegie Institute.

• Banksy
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Alexander Calder
• Marc Chagall
• Salvador Dali

• Jim Dine
• Helen Frankenthaler
• Keith Haring
• Robert Indiana
• Jasper Johns

• William John Kennedy
• Roy Lichtenstein
• John Matos (CRASH)
• Joan Miro
• Henry Moore

• Robert Motherwell
• Marcel Mouly
• Pablo Picasso
• Robert Rauschenberg
• James Rosenquist

• Andy Warhol
• Russell Young