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When Elisofon died in 1973, Indiana bought the lodge for $10,000 from his estate. He moved in full-time when he lost his lease on the Bowery in 1978. Indiana grew reclusive in his final years. He died on May 19, 2018, at his home in Vinalhaven, Maine, of respiratory failure at the age of 89.
May 22, 2018 · Fifty years after his LOVE painting made Robert Indiana a sensation, the artist has died at the age of 89. Indiana’s two-row rendering of the word, with its tilted “O,” became one of the most recognizable works of modern art in the world.
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May 30, 2018 · Born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana in 1928, the painter, sculptor and poet who would adopt the name Indiana—what he called his “nom de brush”—died on May 19, 2018 at the age of 89.
Biography. Robert Indiana was orphaned at birth and adopted as an infant by Earl and Carmen Clark. His childhood was tumultuous, as his family moved twenty-one times before his parents divorced when he was a teenager. Indiana was determined to pursue art, and chose to serve in the US Army Air Corps at the age of seventeen in order to attend the ...
- September 14, 1928
- May 20, 2018
May 22, 2018 · Artist Robert Indiana, who created the pop icon LOVE, has died at 89. He's seen here in his studio in Vinalhaven, Me., in 2008. Indiana moved to New York City in the 1950s, meeting artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Cy Twombly and working a string of jobs as he honed his art.
Robert Indiana was adopted as an infant by Earl Clark and Carmen Watters Clark and named Robert Earl Clark. He grew up in a financially unstable environment, as his father held a wide range of jobs, from an oil executive to pumping gas.
May 21, 2018 · Born in New Castle, Ind., on Sept. 13, 1928, Robert Indiana was the only child of Earl Clark and Carmen Watters and grew up as Robert Clark. He often described his early life as...
