Robert Indiana

"Robert Indiana (1928- ) was born Robert Clark in Indiana. He changed his last name to Indiana after moving to New York. He began his career as a sign painter. He is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work mainly consists of hard edged geometric shapes, words, and colors. He is best known for his screen prints, paintings, and sculptures of the word ""LOVE"" which has even been used on a postage stamp.
Indiana earned his B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute at Chicago in 1953. He had his first solo exhibition in 1962 with the debut of pop art. He showed his work sporadically through the 1980s, but did not create a major body of new work until 1994's ""Hartley Elegies,"" which was dedicated to the Maine painter Mardsen Hartley.
Indiana's artwork is in over 40 public collections worldwide including the phoenix Art Museum, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Wallrof Richartz Museum in Germany.
He left New York in 1978, and is living and working in Maine."