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.

This journal page covers October 27–28, 1963. In his entry for October 27 Indiana records meeting a gallerist named Kasimir at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, for breakfast. Kasimir wanted him to have a show in his gallery that year, as he had decided he wanted "to grapple with the contemporary American scene as well as [the] European." The conversation ended when Jan van der Marck (curator of the exhibition Richard Stankiewicz, Robert Indiana: An Exhibition of Recent Sculptures and Paintings at the Walker Art Gallery), his wife Ingeborg, and an individual named Pierre arrived.

Indiana writes that they all drove up Lake Michigan to Winnetka, Illinois, to see the Robert Mayer collection. They arrived a little late and the guests and hosts were already in the gallery. Indiana notes: "The new wing has been built and [the] expansion is great. My American Stock Company is still in the first gallery, muchly [sic] where it was before—Rossofsky [sic] below it.  A large new Goodenough [sic], which must be Washington Crossing [the] Delaware, dominates the new gallery, which houses Oldenburg’s Playpen too. Pieces are more spaciously hung, but there is still a shortage of wall space, and many pieces are on sliding screens, ala the Hermitage. We were introduced to [the] Fagans of Lake Forest: Mrs. F. being prominent on [the] Ravinia board, and eager [to] do something for culture in Chicago."

In his entry for October 28 Indiana only records "Pace opening," a reference to the Ernest Trova Falling Man Paintings show.