Indiana began a series of Great American Dream frottages in the mid-sixties. These drawings were linked to his series of American Dream paintings, and incorporate a nineteenth-century stencil of a bull that Indiana found in his second studio on Coenties Slip. Indiana noted that the image refers both to the chapter “A White Bull,” from Ross Lockridge, Jr.’s novel Raintree County, and to his own rural background and childhood fantasies on an Indiana farm. The "SPR2ING" which appears at the bottom of the inner circle refers to the address of his studio on 2 Spring Street, where the artist moved in June 1965 and lived until October 1978.
