Eternal Hexagon from the portfolio Ten Works X Ten Painters

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Robert Indiana

American, 1928-2018

Eternal Hexagon from the portfolio Ten Works X Ten Painters, 1964

color screen print on off-white Mohawk paper

Edition: 238/500 plus 10 artist's proofs

image area: 17 1/2 x 16 inches (44.45 x 40.64 cm); sheet: 23 15/16 x 19 15/16 inches (60.8 x 50.64 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Gift of Frederic P. Norton, 1999

P1999:6.617.2

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Inscriptions

chop mark / lower right / [Ives-Sillman chop mark]

Provenance

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut;
Frederic P. Norton, New York City;
donated to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1999

Class

Prints

Work Type

Screen print

Information may change due to ongoing research.Glossary of Terms

Robert Indiana associated the number six with his father, who was born in June and worked for Phillips 66 when the artist was a child. Indiana chose this composition as his contribution to a 1964 portfolio of works by various artists entitled “Ten Works X Ten Painters.”

Label from Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Retrospective, June 16–September 23, 2018