Two

Inscriptions

Artist's monogram, stenciled on reverse: 2 [in center]; NEW [star] INDIANA [star] YORK [star] 66 [encircling the 2]

Label

I’ve always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. --Robert Indiana

This painting represents the ideas that Indiana worked through in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. His symbolism is personal; for him, the number one represented birth, zeros were death, and other numbers were evenly spaced references to the stages of life in between. Number two referred to infancy. He deemphasized his brushwork to the extreme, embracing a Pop approach based on the clean lines and bright colors of advertising.

From the 2023 exhibition The Painter's Hand: U.S. Abstraction since 1950, curated by John Stomberg, Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director

Course History

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2023

Philosophy 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, John Kulvicki, Summer 2023

Philosophy 1.11, Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty, John Kulvicki, Summer 2023

First Year Student Enrichment Program - Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Francine A'Ness, Summer 2023

Exhibition History

Art for the Vice-President's House from Northeast Museums, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, March 6-13, 1979; Vice President's House, Washington D.C., April 1979-April 1980.

Art of the 60's and 70's, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont, July 11-September 18, 2005.

Jay Wolf Bequest of Contemporary Art, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 24-August 28, 1977.

Robert Indiana, Stable Gallery, New York, New York, May 3-28, 1966.

The Painter's Hand: U.S. Abstraction since 1950, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe-Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-December 16, 2023.

Virtual Space for Dialogue, 2017, Self (Hood), Alison Guh, Class of 2017, Mellon Special Prjects Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. https://www.aguh.vsfd.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/

Publication History

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.56, no.32.

Provenance

Stable Gallery, New York, New York; sold to Julius (Jay) Rosenthal Wolf (1929-1976), Class of 1951, New York, New York, May 7, 1966; bequeathed to present collection, 1976.

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