Robert Indiana kept a series of illustrated journals during the late 1950s and 1960s, in which he discusses the development of his work as well as his daily life on Coenties Slip.

In his journal entry for April 19, 1961, Indiana records going to the Louise Nevlson opening at the Martha Jackson Gallery, noting that there was a Cuban demonstration at the nearby Russian United Nations consulate, which filled the gallery's garden with noise. He records seeing artists Fred Mitchell, Leon Smith, César, and Yves Klein and his wife at the opening. 

Indiana also writes that David and Becky Anderson were keeping The American Dream, I, which had been on display in the exhibition Indiana / Forakis, and that his constructions remained in the gallery's garden. The American Dream, I would soon after by purchased by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.