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Robert Indiana
[American Pop Artist, born in 1928]
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Q: Is Pop Art easy art?
A: Yes, as opposed to one eminent critic's dictum that great art must necessarily be difficult art. Pop is instant art.
| | - Robert Indiana, quoted in Art News, November 1963 |
Robert Indiana Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Robert Indiana available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
LOVE, 1967
(In the "Screenprint" section)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Robert Indiana at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
First Love, aquatint, 1991
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
The American Dream
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
The Golden Future of America, 1976
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indiana State University Art Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
(You need to click the "right" arrow three times)
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Coenties Slip, 1962
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Love, screenprint, 1986
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
The Triumph of Tira
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The artworks aren't labelled, but a total of 5 of these look like the work of Robert Indiana
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Wichita State University Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Kansas
LOVE
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Robert Indiana 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
ARTnews
Brief interview from the November 1963 issue of Art News
Resource Library Magazine
Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana
Robert Indiana at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1963 interview from the Oral History project
Multimedia:
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Interview with the artist (RealAudio format)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech
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