“Terre Haute is really what I would consider, for me, a landscape. Terre Haute is about geography. Terre Haute is probably one of my less autobiographical paintings. I’ve never lived in Terre Haute and never really had any particular Terre Haute experiences. The fascination there was simply the eccentricity of the fact that a little Indiana town would bear such a fancy name . . .” — Robert Indiana
Excerpt from Donald B. Goodall, “Conversations with Robert Indiana,” in Donald B. Goodall, Robert L. B. Tobin, and William Katz, Robert Indiana. Exhibition catalogue (Austin: University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, 1977)
