Robert Indiana

Eternal Hexagon
1964

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Date
1964

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 24 × 20in. (61 × 50.8 cm) Image: 17 1/2 × 16 1/8in. (44.5 × 41 cm)

Accession number
96.53.9

Edition
102/500

Publication
Printed by Ives-Sillman, Inc.; printed by Sirocco Screenprints, Inc.; published by Wadsworth Atheneum

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Transfer, from the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Special Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art

Rights and reproductions
©Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/10309

Part of a series:
Ten Works by Ten Painters
10 works

Black and white photo of a confrontation between a police officer and a group of people.
Graphic artwork featuring a stylized red number 6 centered within a yellow circle, which is surrounded by a red ring with the words "ETERNAL HEXAGON" in bold, uppercase letters. The background is brown, and the entire composition is bordered by a white frame.
A graphic artwork featuring a large red oval shape centered on a bright blue background, all contained within a white border and framed.
A stylized graphic with a red and blue color scheme featuring a sandwich on a plate, a full glass with a beverage, and a smoking cigarette resting on the plate's edge.
Graphic artwork with blue vertical stripes and yellow horizontal stripes creating a triangular intersection.
A modern art print featuring abstract shapes in white and black on a mustard yellow background. The central shape resembles a rough outline of a continent or a large island, with a prominent black circle near the top, possibly representing a location or a city.
A modern art print featuring bold, abstract shapes in black, red, green, and yellow, with white spaces creating contrast. The composition is reminiscent of a fragmented figure or a collection of symbols, with two signatures or inscriptions in the lower left and right corners. The artwork is centered on a white background.
A graphic print featuring a central circular motif with geometric patterns in yellow and white, surrounded by various shapes including crosses and circles, as well as upward and downward arrows. The background has a textured yellow pattern with vertical dripping lines at the bottom.
A graphic artwork featuring a pattern of black dots and elongated ovals scattered in a seemingly random distribution against a white background. The arrangement gives a sense of movement or flow across the page.
A minimalist artwork featuring a series of dark squares with varying shades of black and blue, centered on a white background with a wide border.


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