Beginning in the early 1960s, Indiana decided to pair each of his major paintings with a related sculpture: a goal he irregularly realized over the course of his career. To complement the Hartley Elegies series, he created two massive sculptures: KvF, named after von Freyburg, and Mars, which is probably both an abbreviated reference to Marsden Hartley and allusion to the Roman god of war and agriculture.
Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Retrospective is on view through September 23, 2018.