Norma Jean Yearned is one of fifteen paintings by Robert Indiana that takes the actress Marilyn Monroe as its subject. The work was included in the exhibition Robert Indiana, at Galerie Guy Pieters, Saint-Paul de Vence, France, in September 2001, and in Nudes by . . ., at Galerie Rive Gauche Marcel Strouk, Paris, October 13–November 19, 2011.
