
Artists
Robert Indiana
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b. September 13, 1928
Robert Clark was born in New Castle, Indiana. He adopted his state of birth as his artist surname early in his career. Indiana's compositions consist of bold, simple, iconic images and the use of bright contrasting colors. Indiana created a Christmas Card for MOMA in 1964 which first featured his famous LOVE design. In 1973 the United States Postal Service used Indianas design for a postage stamp. The LOVE configuration also became sculptures in public places such as Love Park, Philadelphia in the US and a similar sculpture of the word HOPE edition was placed in the Israel Museum located in Jerusalem, Israel.