Adopting the Past: Robert Indiana and Early American Modernism Thurs, Oct 17, 2013, 6:30 pm

Adopting the Past: Robert Indiana and Early American Modernism

Thurs, Oct 17, 2013
6:30 pm

Number 5s of decreasing size in yellow, on top of a red star in side a pentagram with the words eat, usa, err, die, hug stamped out of black, which is itself inside of a circle made up of gray stripes. Below this circle is the white text The Figure 5, with the whole thing on black.
Number 5s of decreasing size in yellow, on top of a red star in side a pentagram with the words eat, usa, err, die, hug stamped out of black, which is itself inside of a circle made up of gray stripes. Below this circle is the white text The Figure 5, with the whole thing on black.

Robert Indiana (b. 1928), The Figure Five, 1963. Oil on canvas. 60 × 50 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC / Art Resource, NY. © 2013 Morgan Art Foundation, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Robert Indiana's engagement with American Modernists like Charles Demuth, Joseph Stella, and Marsden Hartley is a unique feature of his contribution to Pop art. This gallery talk and tour with independent curator Sasha Nicholas explores this important facet of Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE. Join us for a reception at 6:30, followed by the tour at 7.

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