LOVE
Colored pencil on paper 8 x 8 in. (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Gene Swenson Collection, 70.124a
Artwork: © 2022 Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Indiana first began experimenting with his stacked LOVE image in 1964, in a series of rubbings that he sent to friends as Christmas cards. This drawing was given to Gene Swenson, an art critic and early champion of the artist’s work.