ROBERT INDIANA Love, 2018

American artist, Robert Indiana (1928-2018), a student of the Art Institute of Chicago, defines himself as a sign painter due to his preference for creating iconic paintings of numbers and letters. Indiana is best known for his LOVE paintings and sculptures, first created for the Museum of Modern Art's Christmas card in 1965. It was put on an eight-cent U.S. Postal Service postage stamp in 1973, the first of their regular series of "love stamps". As a major career milestone, he was commissioned to create an EAT sign for the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images. Indiana has also been a theatrical set and costume designer, and was the star of Andy Warhol's film Eat (1964), which is a 45-minute film of Indiana eating a mushroom.