1928 - Born in New Castle, Indiana. He graduated from Arsenal Technical High School, Indianapolis in 1942 and had his first one-man show of watercolours. Indiana's work has evolved into hard-edged graphic images of words, logos and typographic forms, earning him a reputation as one of the county's leading contemporary artists. In 1945 he attended Saturday classes at the John Heron Art Institute, studying under Edwin Fulwinder. Though he received a scholarship to this institution in 1946, he entered the Amy Air Corps instead. While serving in the Amy he attended classes at Syracuse University and studied under Oscar Weissbruch at the Munson-Williams-Procto Institute.  From 1949 to 1953 he attended the School of the Art Institute, Chicago.  He then completed his BFA requirements at the university of Edinburgh while on a travel fellowship, and later moved to New York. In the mid 1950s he was living near New York when he began doing hard-edged paintings; the first ones based on the doubled form of the ginkgo leaf, a motif that continued for several years. In the early 1960s he did his first constructions of junk wood and weathered iron. These works, at fist severely geometric, combine metal and wood. In the early 1960s several of his works were purchased by major museums and collectors and his pieces were included in many exhibitions, including his first one-man show in 1962 at the Stable Gallery, New York. In 1964 he collaborated with Andy Warhol on the film EAT and in the same year received his fist public commission, a work for the exterior of the New York State Pavilion at the New York Wold's Fair -- a 20-foot EAT Sign.  In 1967 he exhibited one of his few figurative works, Mother and Father (1963-67, collection of the artist), at the Ninth Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil.

Love
Screenprint
1996
20" X 24"
signed in pencil
number 65/200
on wove paper
£950
SOLD