Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass by Robert Indiana
Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass by Robert Indiana
Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass by Robert Indiana
Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass by Robert Indiana
Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass by Robert Indiana
Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass by Robert Indiana
Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass by Robert Indiana
Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass by Robert Indiana
Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass by Robert Indiana
Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass by Robert Indiana
Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass by Robert Indiana
Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass by Robert Indiana

Yield Brother, 1971 – Screenprint on wove-paper, professionally framed, museum-glass 1971

Robert Indiana

PaperWhite wove paperPrintSilk-screen
99 ⨯ 81.70 ⨯ 3.50 cm
ConditionGood
€ 3.000

Van Kerkhoff Art

  • About the artwork
    "Yield Brother", from the "Decade" suite. Screenprint on heavy wove-paper, 1971. An impactful work where Indiana made use of military signage, stenciled letters and a palette of strong colours creating tension between it's call for peace and the visual language of military posters.

    Signed and dated and numbered (46/200) in pencil by the artist. The print also bears the artist's copyright ink stamp. Part of an edition of 230 total: 30 artist's proof and a regular edition of 200. The edition was printed by Domberger, Stuttgart (Germany) and published by Multiples Inc. New York City. Professionally framed in a brushed aluminium frame. Museum-glass was used to minimize reflection. Ready to hang.


    About Robert Indiana
    Robert Indiana (pseudonym of Robert Clark) ( New Castle, USA 1928 - Vinalhaven, USA 2018) was an American painter, sculptor and poet. He was a leading representative of pop art and created the internationally famous LOVE symbol in 1964. A self-described American painter of signs", Robert Indiana's works explore visual culture, national identity and personal history through symbols and colours inspired by signage and graphic design.

    Indiana had his first solo exhibition in 1962 at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery, which at that time also represented Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg. In 1962 he participated with the work The Black American Dream #2 in the exhibition New Realists, organized in the gallery of Sidney Janis. It was here that pop art first announced itself as a new movement in visual art. In the following years, Indiana would participate in all the important group exhibitions of this movement.

    Although the Pop Art movement made Indiana famous, he was never fully comfortable with the consumerist nature of Pop Art as his work often was very politically outspoken. In 1978 Robert Indiana left New York City for good, moving to the remote island of Vinalhaven in Maine, close to where his hero, the painter Marsden Hartley had lived. Since then he rarely gave interviews or engaged in the art world, yet he continued to align himself with political causes, designing the official poster for Barack Obama's Presidential campaign in 2008.

    During his lifetime Indiana had countless exhibitions all over the world, and his work is included in the collections of numerous international museums: among others Metropolitan Museum New York, Museum of Modern Art New York, Tate Modern London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

    Condition
    Overall good condition. Full margins. Slight undulation on right side of the print. Slight moisture damage in upper left margin.

    Literature
    Robert Indiana Prints. A Catalog Raisonne 1951 - 1991. P. 65

    Dimensions
    Frame
    H. 99.5 cm
    W. 81.7 cm
    D. 3.5 cm

    Sheet
    H. 99 cm
    W. 81 cm

    Visual size
    H. 91.4 cm
    W. 75.6 cm
  • About the artist

    The artist was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana. He later changed his name to that of his native state. Between 1945 and 1955 he studied at art schools in Indianapolis and in Utica, New York; at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Edinburgh College of Art, and London University. In 1956 he settled in New York City and began to make vividly colored, hard-edged pictures. In the 1960s, he incorporated letters and words into his works, creating the bold word-images that brought him widespread recognition.

    Robert Indiana has found his subjects in the words of American signs and highway billboards. As other pop artists who emerged in the 1960s, he appropriates familiar images in American culture and gives them a new look. One of his most famous images is the word "LOVE" rendered in various forms: brightly colored or black-and-white block letters in prints and paintings; large-scale polished metal sculpture; and even postage stamps.

    In South Bend, the Gallery's lithograph, Indiana not only alludes to his home state and to himself, but also indulges in a visual pun in the turns of the arrow, pointing south. Through vibrant color and road signs, place names, and shapes that ricochet around the composition, he captures the energy of an American high-speed highway. Indiana's work includes prints, sculpture, and paintings, and many commissioned murals.

    [This is an excerpt from the interactive companion program to the videodisc American Art from the National Gallery of Art. Produced by the Department of Education Resources, this teaching resource is one of the Gallery's free-loan educational programs.]

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