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A New Spelling of Museum. Part 2: M-Z

A New Spelling of Museum. Part 2: M-Z

Museum Ulm at Kunsthalle Weishaupt

Ulm, Germany

November 23, 2024–September 21, 2025

Cover to Homage to Marilyn Monroe exhibition catalogue

Homage to Marilyn Monroe

Sidney Janis Gallery New York December 6–30, 1967

Poster for the Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture 1967

Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh October 27, 1967–January 7, 1968

Cover of the exhibition catalogue for the Sao Paulo 9

São Paulo 9—United States of America: Edward Hopper [and] Environment U.S.A.: 1957–1967

Museu de Arte Moderna São Paulo September 22, 1967–January 8, 1968

Installation view of The Cardinal Numbers (1966), hung vertically, in the American Pavilion, at Expo ’67 in Montreal; numbers One through Five are visible

American Painting Now

American Pavilion, International and Universal Exposition Montreal April 28–October 27, 1967

Opening invitation for the Robert Indiana exhibition at the Galleria Christian Stein

Galleria Christian Stein Turin, Italy March 8–April 1967

A beige painting with the title, Louisiana, painted in white stenciled letters across the center bottom edge of the canvas. Above the title and dominating the canvas is a large circle consisting of a pink image of the state of Louisiana in the middle, with "The Fair City Bogalusa" shown on the map. Around this image is a white ring with stenciled red text surrounded by a beige ring and another white ring with brown stenciled text. The text reads, starting in the outer ring, "Just as in the anatomy of man every nation," and in the inner ring "must have its hind part."

Dayton's Gallery 12 Minneapolis September 27–October 22, 1966

Page from the brochure for the exhibition Robert Indiana: Number Paintings at Studio 7 at the Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, featuring reproductions of the paintings One through Zero.

Robert Indiana: Number Paintings at Studio 7

Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany August 5–28, 1966

Poster for Robert Indiana: Number Paintings exhibition at the Museum Haus Lange Krefeld

Robert Indiana: Number Paintings

Museum Haus Lange Krefeld Krefeld, Germany June 11–July 24, 1966

Poster for 1966 Robert Indiana show at the Stable Gallery, with a green LOVE against a blue ground

Stable Gallery New York May 3–28, 1966

Robert Indiana exhibition poster, with the numbers one, nine, eight, and four, each in a circle.

Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, the Netherlands April 30–June 5, 1966

A black painting dominated by a red numeral eight within a brown circle with a blue outline. Below the circe the work's title, "Eight," is painted in red letters.

Robert Indiana: Number Paintings

Galerie Schmela Düsseldorf, Germany March 4–31, 1966

Robert Indiana's The Electric EAT being installed for the Exhibition Art Turned On, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1965

Institute of Contemporary Art Boston December 10, 1965–January 30, 1966

A painting titled God Is a Lily of the Valley, with a large blue circle against a red background. Within the circle are four other circles enclosing text around a white outer ring. The text reads "He is a star," "He is a king," "He is a ruby," and "He is a tiger." A white ring around the larger circle contains red stenciled text that reads "God is a lily of the valley. He can do everything but fail."

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York December 8, 1965–January 2, 1966

Cover of Whitney 1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting catalogue

1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting

Whitney Museum of American Art New York December 8, 1965–January 30, 1966

A red painting titled "The Calumet." A large circle containing seven smaller circles dominates the canvas. The seven smaller circles each hold an orange star, and are surrounded by the names of different Native American tribes painted in red stenciled letters in an outer yellow ring. A yellow ring encloses the large circle, and contains the red stenciled text "On the mountains of the prairie Gitche Manito the mighty called the tribes of men together."

The White House Festival of the Arts

The White House Washington, D.C. June 14–15, 1965

A blue painting dominated by a red numeral one within a green circle with a white outline. Below the circe the painting's title, "One," is painted in red letters.

Rolf Nelson Gallery Los Angeles May 10–June 5, 1965

Poster for The 29th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting

29th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting

Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. February 26–April 18, 1965