Decade: Autoportrait 1961

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Artist: Robert Indiana, American, 1928-2018
Year
1972-1977

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Media/materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
72 x 72in (182.9 x 182.9cm)
Credit line
Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin
Accession number
1999.93
Object type
Paintings
Department
Contemporary Art
Location
Not on view
Further information
In 1971, Robert Indiana began work on a suite of paintings known as the Decade: Autoportraits, each documenting a different year of his life in the 1960s. Using an overlapping, quasi-Cubist format, he stenciled his signature words such as "eat," "die," "jack," and "juke," along with the names of people he had known and the places he had visited, lived, or worked during the decade onto the canvases.
Copyright
© Morgan Art Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Subject period
Pop art
Postmodern
Contemporary
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Americas/United States Artistic Devices and Terms/text Artistic Devices and Terms/narrative Artistic Devices and Terms/abstract Artistic Devices and Terms/allusion Artistic Devices and Terms/narrative Artistic Devices and Terms/geometric Subject Types/history and culture Subject Types/portraits/self-portraits Shapes and Objects/stars

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