Decade: Autoportrait '73 (Crockett Cove) is a print from Indiana’s Decade: Autoportraits, Vinalhaven Suite.
Regarding the series Indiana wrote: “A decade ago, in the early ’70s I began a series of paintings, autobiographical in intent, which, because they spanned the ten years of my life in the ’60s, I called Decade: Autoportraits. These grew to be three sets, or, 30 paintings in all, of differing sizes, which touched upon some of the important occasions, places and people who figured conspicuously in my life during that very tumultuous decade for an artist in America—truly a golden decade.
Upon coming to Maine to live permanently in the late ’70s I decided to record the more recent decade and the ten years which included part of each on the island of Vinalhaven in the Penobscot Bay.”
He also penned a statement explaining each individual print:
"My very first night in Vinalhaven was spent in Eliot Elisofon’s old farm house on Crockett Cove where, truly, a very bright morning star shone for my future prospects on this lovely island. However, Morning Star was the name of the inn where I spent my third winter vacation in 1973 in the Virgin Islands again. Stephen was a studio assistant at the time that I designed the 8¢ Love stamp for the U.S. government, which became America’s favorite adhesive, going into three printings for a total of 330,000,000 copies."