External Hexagon, from "Ten Works + Ten Painters" / Robert Indiana
About this Item
Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1986/1.194.9
- Title
- External Hexagon, from "Ten Works + Ten Painters"
- Artist
- Robert Indiana
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1928
- Medium and Support
- screenprint on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1964
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Graham and Marianne Smith
- Inscription
- See catalog card for inscription.
- Dimensions
- 61.1 cm x 51 cm (24 1/16 in. x 20 1/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- color print
- Physical Description
- This work is a brown rectangle that contains a yellow circle and a yellow hexagon shape with red stencil lettering. At the bottom edge of the rectangle, below the yellow circle, is the word "hexagon". Within the the yellow circle are the words "external" and "hexagon" and within the yellow hexagon shape is a large "6".
- Subject Matter
- This work is one of ten prints published within a portfolio, “Ten Works + Ten Painters”, commissioned by Samuel J. Wagstaff from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in 1964. This portfolio was one of the earliest to have several artists published together to make major American artists accessible to a wider audience and range of collectors. Each print in this portfolio was based on a painting the artists had previously created. Some of the artists represented, in addition to Robert Indiana, are Robert Motherwell, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly and Roy Lichtenstein, who were associated with the Pop and Minimalism art movements in the 1960s.
- Primary Keywords
- geometric shapes
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 781 x 897
- File Size
- 56 KB
- Record
- 1986/1.194.9
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1986-sl-1.194.9/1986_1.194.9.jpg
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"External Hexagon, from "Ten Works + Ten Painters"; Robert Indiana." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1986-sl-1.194.9/1986_1.194.9.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
