Robert Clark Indiana - Summer LOVE

Robert Indiana
13.09.1928 New Castle
Summer LOVE
Made from pure virgin wool - hand-tufted
2006

Verso with certificate, handwritten numbered,
certificate printed and signed.
In very good condition
Size: approx. 40x40 cm

For numbered items, the numbering may differ from the photo; you will receive an exemplar from the edition.

The production of hand-tufted carpets requires great craftsmanship. Each carpet is produced by a tofter in full. On the stretched support fabric, the shape of the resulting carpet is traced and produced with high quality and selected, premium materials (pure wool).

Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark; September 13, 1928 – May 19, 2018) was an American artist and a central figure of the Pop Art movement. He was inspired by advertising signs and claimed: “In America there are more signs than trees. There are more signs than leaves. I consider myself a painter of the American landscape.” In his paintings, sculptures, carpets, and prints, he imitates and arranges the words and numbers of a variety of signs, including the Phillips 66 gas station logo and the traffic sign “Yield.” He is best known for his painting “Love” created in 1964, first for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He created a block from the word – with the “L” and the “O” on the “V” and the “E” – Indiana effectively inserted his own sign into the mix. His “Love” painting was reproduced on a stamp in 1973; his “Love” sculptures are installed worldwide in public spaces.

Indiana moved to New York City in 1954 and joined the Pop Art movement. He employed a distinctive iconography that drew on approaches from commercial art and existentialism and gradually turned to what Indiana called “sculptural poetry.” He has had solo exhibitions in more than 40 museums and galleries worldwide. His works are in the permanent collections of many museums, including: the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands; Carnegie Institute, Detroit Institute of Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC; Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Los Angeles County Museum, California, among many others.