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Column: Err gesso on found wood column and base designed by Richard Artschwager 63 1/2 by 13 3/8 by 13 3/8 in. 161.3 by 34 by 34 cm. Executed in 1964. Catalogue Note "Indiana's skill...was evident in the group of wood sculptures he included in his 1964 show at the Stable Gallery. Made from discarded round columns originally used as shipping masts in the nineteenth century, then recycled for use as construction materials in the Coenties Slip warehouses that were in the process of being demolished, the sculptures celebrated humanity while also recognized its underlying pathos. Indiana had experimented with the round form once before, in 1960, with a pole salvaged from Jack Youngerman's loft, which he had stenciled with the names of places in the Coenties Slip neighborhood. Faced in 1964 with a dwindling supply of rectangular wood beams to make herms, he turned to columns as a substitute. Rather than inscribe them with the nouns that had decorated his herms, he stenciled the verbs 'HUG,' 'ERR,' 'EAT,' and 'DIE' in horizontal bands around the columns' circumferences, thereby investing the scultpures with multivalent metaphysical and personal meanings. The staccato repition of the words, rendered in white gothic letters, registered as a visual incantation of human frailty and forgiveness." - Barbara Haskell (in "Robert Indiana: The American Dream," Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Robert Indiana: Beyond Love, 2013, pp. 98-99) Medium gesso on wood Year of Work 1964 Size Height 63.5 in.; Width 13.4 in.; Depth 13.4 in. / Height 161.3 cm.; Width 34 cm.; Depth 34 cm. EXAMPLES OF ROBERT INDIANA VIEWED AT WHITNEY MUSEUM FOR SCALE ONLY.

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