Leaves
1965
Oil on canvas
60 × 50 in. (152.4 × 127 cm)
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio. Gift of the Tobin Foundation
Photo: Courtesy of the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Artwork: © Star of Hope Foundation, Vinalhaven, Maine
Leaves (1965), on display in Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Retrospective, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, June 16–September 23, 2018
Photo: Tom Powel Imaging
Untitled drawing of a plant (1957) by Indiana
Photo: Dennis and Diana Griggs
Although it [Leaves] is a silhouette study of a plant which is right here in my studio, a corn plant or a dracaena, the point of the thing, of course, is that I was leaving Coenties Slip . . .
— Robert Indiana
Arthur C. Carr, “The Reminiscences of Robert Indiana,” New York, November 1965, Arthur C. Carr papers; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library, p. 70.
Leaves is currently on display in Robert Indiana: The Sweet Mystery, at the Procuratie Vecchie, Venice.