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A gray canvas dominated by a white numeral zero within a circle with a white outline. Below the circe the work's title, "Zero," is painted in white letters.
Group Zero
Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia October 30–December 11, 1964
Cover of Nieuwe Realisten exhibition catalogue
Nieuwe Realisten
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag The Hague, the Netherlands June 24–August 30, 1964
Poster for Robert Indiana New Art exhibition held at the Stable Gallery, New York
Robert Indiana: New Art
Stable Gallery New York May 12–30, 1964
The Black Yield Brother III, a black diamond shaped painting containing four black circles with a red vertical band surrounded by a yellow ring containing black text and six small black stars. The text in each ring reads, starting a top and going clockwise, "Yield Sister," "Yield Father," "Yield Brother," and "Yield Mother."
Artists for CORE: Third Annual Art Exhibition and Sale
Gallery of American Federation of Arts New York May 6–16, 1964
Cover of Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 54–64 exhibition catalogue
Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 54–64
Tate Gallery London April 22–June 28, 1964
Black and white installation view of Robert Indiana's EAT sculpture at the New York World’s Fair
New York World’s Fair
Theaterama Queens, New York April 22–October 18, 1964, and April 21–October 17, 1965
Black and gold cover for the catalogue of the exhibition New Art, with the word "New" above the word "Art." Each black letter is in an individual gold circle.
The New Art
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut March 1–22, 1964
Cover Annual Exhibition 1963: Contemporary American Painting exhibition catalogue
Annual Exhibition 1963: Contemporary American Painting
Whitney Museum of American Art New York December 11, 1963–February 2, 1964
Installation view of Signs of the Times Three: Paintings by Twelve Contemporary Pop Artists at the Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, with Indiana's painting "Polygon: Nonagon"
Signs of the Times Three: Paintings by Twelve Contemporary Pop Artists
Des Moines Art Center Des Moines, Iowa December 6, 1963–January 19, 1964
God Is a Lily of the Valley, a painting with a large circle around four smaller circles on a green background. Each contains green stenciled text in a white ring. The outer circles reads "God is a lily of the valley. He can do everything but fail. The smaller circles read "He is blossom," "He is stamen," "He is root," and "He is pistil."
An American Viewpoint
Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati December 4, 1963–January 7, 1964
A painting with a black ground and its title, "The Rebecca," painted in white stenciled letters across the bottom of the canvas. Above the text is a large circle, at the center of which is a blue eight within a white ring with a the black text "Port of New York," within a red compass rose within a blue circle. Surrounding this is another white ring, containing the text, in black, "The American Slave Company."
Richard Stankiewicz, Robert Indiana: An Exhibition of Recent Sculptures and Paintings
Walker Art Center Minneapolis October 22–November 24, 1963
A painting with a red X against a black ground. On top of the X is a large blue circle containing four yellow circles each with a black peace sign. The work's title, "Yield Brother," appears in blue stenciled letters across the bottom of the canvas.
International Exhibition and Sale of Works of Art in Aid of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
Woburn Abbey Northampton, United Kingdom October 27–November 3, 1963
Cover of Dunn International exhibition catalogue
Dunn International: An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting
Beaverbrook Art Gallery Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada September 7–October 6, 1963
A banner depicting a stylized version of the American flag. The ground of the banner consists of 13 red and white stripes. In the center of the banner is a blue circle with a white outer band, containing 51 white stars.
Banners
Graham Gallery New York June 4–28, 1963
Installation view of the exhibition Americans 1963 with Robert Indiana's paintings The X-5, 1963, and The Black Diamond American Dream #2, 1962
Americans 1963
Museum of Modern Art New York May 22–August 18, 1963
A diamond shaped painting with four numbers, each within a polygon of the corresponding number of sides. In the upper corner is a red nine within a blue nonagon; in the right side is a yellow eight within a red octagon, in the bottom is an orange seven within a magenta heptagon, and in the left is red six within a green hexagon.
De A à Z 1963: 31 peintres américains choisis par the Art Institute of Chicago
Centre Culturel Américain Paris May 10–June 20, 1963
Cuba, a sculpture consisting of a wooden beam with a haunched tenon, standing on a wooden base. The work's title, Cuba, is painted in red letters across the bottom of the plank. Above it is a wooden peg, and to each side is an iron wheel. A green star in a white circle is found in the upper half of the sculpture, and above this the top part of the sculpture, including the tenon, is painted in blue and white vertical stripes.
Assemblage
Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art Cornell University, Ithaca, New York January 31–February 21, 1963
Cover of the 66th American Annual Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture exhibition catalogue
66th American Annual Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
Art Institute of Chicago Chicago January 11–February 10, 1963
Exhibition announcement for Stock up for the Holidays at Pace Gallery, featuring Santa drinking a Coca Cola
Stock Up for the Holidays: An Anthology of Pop Art
Pace Gallery Boston December 10, 1962–January 2, 1963
Cover of the exhibition catalogue for the New Realists exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery, 1962
International Exhibition of the New Realists
Sidney Janis Gallery New York October 31–December 1, 1962
Stable, a black painting dominated by a white star within a white ring containing the black stenciled text "Stable 16 October 62." "Indiana" is painted in white stenciled letters across the bottom of the painting.
Robert Indiana
Stable Gallery New York October 16–November 3, 1962
A small canvas dominated by a green field of color. The bottom quarter of the canvas contains the painting's title, Grass, in green stenciled letters against the white canvas.
Indiana / Natkin
Stubbing and Greenfield Gallery Mamaroneck, New York March 24–April 14, 1962
Installation view of Penthouse Exhibition: Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, with Indiana's sculpture Law visible second from the right
Penthouse Exhibition: Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art New York February 26–April 16, 1962