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Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the ‘50s and ‘60s

University Art Museum

University of California, Berkeley

April 4–June 21, 1987

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Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the ‘50s and ‘60s - University Art Museum - Exhibitions - Robert Indiana

Alabama, 1965. Photo: Courtesy of the Miami University Art Museum, Ohio; Artwork: © Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the ‘50s and ‘60s looked at the themes and subjects in American art of the 1950s and 1960s. An exhibition of over 100 paintings and sculptures, it approached the works in a cultural context that elaborated upon the nature and significance of their iconcography. The works in the exhibition both celebrated and questioned American culture, and Indiana was represented by two paintings, The Demuth American Dream No. 5 (1963) and Alabama (1965).

The exhibition traveld to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, July 25–September 6, 1987, and to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, October 7–December 7, 1987.