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 March 11, 1962, Indiana records relief from a "period of exhaustion and oppression," when Eleanor Ward called to tell him that she had decided against the necessity of him bringing his two large canvases to the gallery (Stable), as she felt it would be possible to get the director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (now the Buffalo AKG Art Museum) down to his studio (the museum would acquire Year of Meteors that year).

Indiana then writes that, just as J. (his partner, fashion designer John Kloss) and he were finishing breakfast, Stephen and Barbara Durkee appeared, followed by "the gals from Westchester [Noel Frackman and Ruth Kaufmann] [to] select pieces for [the] show there [Indiana / Natkin]." This brought "weight and oppression again, not at all lifted until they had left [the] scene." He records that the Durkees rushed upstairs to secure the Polygon paintings, having forgotten that Frackman had seen the beginning of them. The Durkees waited for Frackman and Kaufman to leave, and then revealed that gallerist Allan Stone had been by to visit them: "they were discreet and v[ery] effective, for I came v[ery] close [to] revealing all before [the] long evening had passed." 

Indiana also notes that gallerist Rolf Nelson had gone to Los Angeles.