Beware-Danger American Dream #4
Date
1963
Artist
Robert Indiana, American, b. New Castle, Indiana, 1928–2018
Provenance
Stable Gallery, New York, to 30 May 1963
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 30 May 1963-17 May 1966
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Exhibition History
[STABLE GALLERY, New York. Group Show, June 1963, no. cat.]
WASHINGTON GALLERY OF MODERN ART, Washington, DC. "Formalists," 6 June-7 July 1963, no. 23, ill. back cover.
WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis. "Richard Stankiewicz / Robert Indiana: An Exhibition of Recent Sculptures and Paintings," 22 October-24 November 1963, no. 12, ill. Tour: INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Boston, 14 December-26 January 1964.
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "The Friends Collect: Recent Acquisitions by Members of the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art," 8 May-16 June 1964, no. 75. ill. p. 49.
CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "The Twenty-Ninth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," 26 February-18 April 1965, no. 63.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 867, ill. p. 569; p. 704.
MUSEE D'ART MODERNE ET D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, Nice. "Robert Indiana: Rétrospective 1958-1998," 26 June-22 November 1998, ill. p. 191.
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART, Maine. "Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana," 24 June-17 October 1999, no. 17, fig. 33, p. 54; p. 103. Tour: MARIETTA/COBB MUSEUM OF ART, Georgia, 23 November-30 January 2000.
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE," 26 September 2013-5 January 2014, fig. 68, p. 76. Tour: MCNAY ART MUSEUM, San Antonio, 5 February-25 May.
Published References
UNSIGNED. "Art: State of the Market," Time (21 June 1963), ill. p. 62.
Advertisement for Stable Gallery, New York. Art International 7, no. 6 (25 June 1963), ill. p. 21.
BRATTINGS, PIETER. "Robert Indiana: Graphic Pictures," Gebrauchsgraphik 35 (April 1964), fig. 1, p. 56.
Color plate, Cosmopolitan (December 1964), p. 96.
FELDMAN, EDMUND BURKE. Art as Image and Idea (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967), ill. p. 338.
INDIANA, ROBERT and JOHN W. MCCOUBREY. Robert Indiana, with Statements by the Artist and an Introduction by John W. McCoubrey (Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1968), ill. p. 25.
FELDMAN, EDMUND BURKE. Varieties of Visual Experience: Art as Image and Idea, Revised and enlarged edition (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972), ill. p. 428.
FELDMAN, EDMUND BURKE. Varieties of Visual Experience, Basic edition (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1973), ill. p. 310.
LERNER, ABRAM. Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), no. 94.
LERNER, ABRAM et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 704, ill. 867.
ADAMS, HUGH. Art of the Sixties (Oxford: Phaidon Press, Ltd., 1978), p. 22, fig. 14 [incorrect orientation].
UNSIGNED. America's Studio: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (brochure, 1988), ill. p. 19 [incorrect orientation].
SANDLER, IRVING. American Art of the 1960s (New York: Harper and Row, 1988), ill. 54, p. 157.
BAYLEY, STEPHEN. Commerce and Culture: From Pre-Industrial Art to Post-Industrial Value (Kent, England: Penshurst Press, 1989), fig. 48, p. 38 [incorrect orientation].
WEINHARDT, CARL J. Robert Indiana (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990), n.p., ill.
SEITZ, WILLIAM C. Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970 (Washington, DC and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), fig. 65, p. 80.
UNSIGNED. Sotheby's Catalogue, Contemporary Art, Part I, Sale 6494 (10 November 1993), n.p. (entry for lot 16).
GLUECK, GRACE. "Robert Indiana's Career: Love and American Style," New York Times (27 August 1999), p. B34.
RYAN, SUSAN ELIZABETH. Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000), n.p., fig. 4.26.
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School
Pop Art (American)
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
66.2540
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
four panels, each: 36 1/8 × 36 in. (91.6 × 91.5 cm); overall, diagonal: 102 1/4 in. (259.5 cm)
