ROBERT INDIANA: A - Z follows the 77 year ongoing career of this seminal artist from 1934 to his current work in 2011/2012. Featured are his icons – EAT, LOVE and HOPE and his latest masterpiece, THE ALPHABET, in many ways, the culmination of a his journey as the world’s premiere Word Artist. The exhibition presents more than 75 works showcasing Indiana’s unique method of working on paper, canvas, print, and in three dimensions with the same image. Several important works in the exhibitions have never before shown, including a body of childhood drawings that track his early development, portraits of his close friend Ellsworth Kelly from the 1950s, and the first LOVE ever sculpted by the artist.

Born in Indiana [real name: Robert Clark] in 1928, he graduated from the Chicago Art Institute where fellow students included Pop Artist Claes Oldenberg, Red Grooms, and Photorealist, Richard Estes­­­. Indiana was one of the six founding fathers of Pop Art along with Andy Warhol. Warhol made the infamous film EAT about Indiana, the only artist about whom Warhol ever made a film. Indiana’s LOVE, conceived originally as a postcard for New York’s Museum of Modern Art, is one of the most recognizable works in American Art and was rendered as sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints, globally exhibited, and also as a U.S. Postage stamp. Indiana’s work is in over 1000 collections in 100 countries including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum, The Whitney Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Stedelijk Museum and The Louvre.

The exhibition is being organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions in association with Michael McKenzie, former American Director of The Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo. McKenzie is the author of over 20 books in 30 languages including the highly influential ART FOR THE 80s [Abbeville], and monographs on Robert Indiana, Donald Sultan and Larry Rivers.

The exhibition will be available beginning in 2012. The exhibition is available in 2 configurations for larger and smaller institutions. A catalog will be published.

Exhibition Facts

Dates Available:  Fall 2012 - 2014

Contents:              85 works - paintings, sculpture. prints,
                               ephemera: books, posters, photographs

Publications:        A catalogue and gallery guide will be available

Space Req:           3,000 to 5,000 sq. ft.

Loan Fee:              Upon Request

Insurance:             Exhibitor responsible 

Shipping:               Exhibitor responsible 

Req:                       Appropriate security

Contact:                Landau Traveling Exhibitions  - 310-397-3098
                               Jeffrey Landau jlandau@a-r-t.com

Exhibition Checklist

1 – 12  
‘LOVE’  Silkscreen on Paper [1995], edition of 200   20” x 24”
Each Individually framed 28” x 34” accompanied by an original poem by the artist with a sculpted paper relief of LOVE, also 28” x 34”

13/14. 
EAT   [2011]  TWO Silkscreens on Canvas  24” x 26”

15. - 18.
FOUR SEASONS OF HOPE [2010]
Four works on canvas, each 36” x 36”

19.
HOPE   APRIL [2011]
Silkscreen on Canvas.

20.
HOPE   36” x 36” x 18” [2011]
Fabricated metal edition of  8

21. IMPERIAL HOPE [2011]  24” x 48”
Silkscreen on canvas Unique

22 – 47
Alphabet [1994 – 2011]
A – Z  [2011] 24” x 24”
Silkscreen and rainbow roll on canvas, each unique from a series of 5

48.
Portrait of Obama HOPE [2008]
Silkscreen, photosilkscreen and oil on canvas 24” x 36”

49.
JANUARY of HOPE [32” x 32”] [2009]
Silkscreen and metallic ink on canvas

50 - 56.
Alphabet Letters [2011]
36” x 36” x 18”  Edition of 8
 fabricated aluminum and paint.

57 – 62.
Alphabet Letters [2010 – 2011]
18” x 18” x 9” Edition of 9
Fabricated aluminum and paint

63.
HOPE [2008]
72” x 72” x 36” on artist designed fabricated steel stand 48” x 96” x 36”
Stainless steel fabricated and hand finished. Historical first piece.

64. 
EAT [2011]
36” x 36”  silkscreen on canvas

65.
First Love [1963]
10” x 10” x 5”
Hand fabricated paper, the first love sculpture.

66.
LOVE [1992]
Cast resin 8” x 8” x 4” unique

67.
72 Portraits of Ellsworth Kelly [1959]
Sketched from life charcoal on paper 18” x 24”

73.
Portrait of Frank [1989]
Pencil on Paper 30” x 40”

74.
Alphabet Block [1994]
Cast and fabricated Stainless Steel 8” x 8” x 8”

75 – 82.
Childhood drawings approx. 16” x 20” framed circa 1934 - 1944
Graphite, wax and watercolor.

83.
ALPHABET WALL    15” X 18” X 2” [2011]
Carved aluminum block mounted on marble

84.
GOLDEN HOPE  18” X 18” X 9” [2012]
24 KT Gold on fabricated aluminum

85.  
Study for Golden Hope  3” x 3” x 1.5 “
24kt Gold on extruded aluminum

86. 
PROTOTYPE FOR HOPE [2007]
Carved and fabricated wood, painted.

Ephemera: books, posters, notecards.