Decade: Autoportrait '75 (Carver's Pond) 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 home on Vilhaven overlooks Carver’s Harbor in the front and in the rear Carver’s Pond, being situated on an artificial land bridge that formed Main Street in the 19th century. 1975 was the year that a friend named Shelly first visited the island—harking to another Shelley who too was interested in island beauty—and Tiger was a favorite cat of many years who did not complete her journey back to New York that year."