Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE | Art & Artists | Whitney Museum of American Art

The letters L and O stacked on top of V and E. The letters are in red, and the spaces around them are either green or blue. The O is slanted at a diagonal.

Robert Indiana (b. 1928), LOVE, 1968. Aluminum. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Purchase, with funds from the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc. 68.71. © 2013 Morgan Art Foundation, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Black and yellow vertical stripes, with a white circle on top. Inside the white circle is text saying The American Gas Works. Inside of that circle is a red one, with four more circles, each with the numbers 0-9 rotating around the outside.

A blue rectangle, with stars in white circles, a red stripe, a bunch of black circles with three letters in each, and below the text The American Sweetheart.

Robert Indiana (b. 1928), The American Sweetheart, 1959-61. Oil on Homasote, 36 × 48 in. (91.4 × 121.9 cm). Cari and Michael J. Sacks, Chicago. ©2013 Morgan Art Foundation, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Robert Indiana, The Beware – Danger American Dream #4, 1963. Oil on canvas, four panels: 36 × 36 in. each. Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966. ©2013 Morgan Art Foundation, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Robert Indiana (b. 1928), The Demuth American Dream #5, 1963. Oil on canvas, 141 3/4 × 141 3/4 in. (360 × 360 cm). Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; gift from the Women’s Committee Fund, 1964. ©2013 Art Gallery of Ontario; Morgan Art Foundation, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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

Four circles of red, blue, yellow, and black above the text The Triumph Of Tira, on black with red stripes at the bottom. In the circles are the text Law, Cat, Men, and Sex.

Robert Indiana (b. 1928), The Triumph of Tira, 1960-61. Oil on canvas, 72 × 60 in. (182.9 × 152.4). Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln; NAA-Nelle Cochrane Woods Memorial. ©2013 Morgan Art Foundation, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Four gold circles inside of a black diamond, with text in each circle.

Robert Indiana (b. 1928), The Black Diamond American Dream #2, 1962. Oil on canvas, 85 × 85 in. (216 × 216 cm), diamond. Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon. ©2013 Morgan Art Foundation, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Red diagonal stripes on the top and bottom of the image sandwich two curved yellow blobs that sit side by side. Below the yellow blobs is the text The Sweet Mystery in blue. Behind is black.

Artwork by Robert Indiana with a mother and father next to their cars.

The word Eat in orange, inside an off white circle, on an orange rectangle on the left. On the right, the word Die in black, inside an off white circle, on a black rectangle.

Artwork by Robert Indiana based on a subway sign.

Robert Indiana (b. 1928), Decade: Autoportrait 1961, 1972-77. Oil on canvas, 72 × 72 in. (182.9 × 182.9 cm). Collection of the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; gift of Robert L. B. Tobin. ©2013 Morgan Art Foundation, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE | Art & Artists

Sept 26, 2013–Jan 5, 2014

Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE | Art & Artists

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Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE | Art & Artists

Sept 26, 2013–Jan 5, 2014

Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE | Art & Artists

Exhibition works

Robert Indiana 8 works in the collection, 8 exhibitions

Explore works from this exhibition in the Whitney's collection

Robert Indiana
8 works in the collection, 8 exhibitions

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in the Whitney's collection