LOVE

Artist Robert Indiana (1928 - 2018)

Date1966-1999

MediumCor-Ten steel

Dimensions72 x 72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 182.9 x 91.4 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2009.4

Accession number 2009.4

On View

On view

Collections

LGBTQ+ Artists

Provenance(Gallery Guy Pieters, Knokke, Belgium); to Private Collection; to (Sotheby's, New York, NY), May 13, 2009, lot 217; purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2009
Label TextRobert Indiana’s celebrated LOVE image was originally designed as a Christmas card for The Museum of Modern Art in 1965. Indiana, known for exploring the power of language, frequently incorporates letters and numbers in his work. This version of the sculpture was fabricated in 1999.
Markingslower interior edge of letter E: [signature] ©1966-1999 AP 4/4