The American Way--Hug #1
Robert Indiana, American, 1928 - 2018
1964
Conté stencil rubbing on paper
Sheet: 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Jay R. Wolf, Class of 1951
D.976.144
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: Robert Indiana 64; titled, lower left: The American Way--Hug #1
Course History
Studio Art 27.01, Printmaking I: Relief Printmaking, Abra Ancliffe, Fall 2023
Exhibition History
A Self Portrait of America, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 18-September 16, 1984.
Contemporary Drawings from University Collections, University Art Galleries, Unversity of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, September 6-October 26, 1978.
Hail, Holy Land: the Idea of American, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 27-September 7, 1980.
Jay Wolf Bequest of Contemporary Art, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 24-August 28, 1977.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005.
Second Stage of Modernism: Art from 1945 to the Present, William B. Jaffe, Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall, Churchill P. Lathrop, Friends, and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 6-August 16, 1987.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 38, ill. p. 238.
Provenance
Julius (Jay) Rosenthal Wolf (1929-1976), Class of 1951, New York, New York; bequeathed to present collection, 1976.
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