The Eateria, 1962. Photo: Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Artwork: © Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Robert Indiana's 1962 show at the Stable Gallery, New York, was his first solo exhibition. It featured fourteen paintings (with the canvases comprising diptych panels listed as individual works): Eat/Die (1962), The Green Diamond Eat/The Red Diamond Die (1962), The Eateria (1962), The Dietary (1962), The Red Diamond American Dream #3 (1962), The Melville Trilogy (later renamed The Melville Triptych) (1962), The Rebecca (1962), The American Gas Works (1961–62), God Is a Lily of the Valley (1961–62), The Calumet (1961), Year of Meteors (1961), and Melville (1961).