American Eat Co.

Prints and Drawings

1961

Robert Indiana
American, born 1928

Indiana attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1949 to 1953 before moving to New York in 1954. This drawing comes from a series completed during the early 1960s featuring the frottage (rubbing) technique. He used a 19th-century brass commercial stencil from the American Hay Company, discovered in an abandoned loft in Lower Manhattan. Indiana laid paper over the stencil and transferred the dimensional image onto the sheet using soft graphite and hatching.

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Artist: Robert Indiana
Title: American Eat Co.
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1961
Medium: Graphite frottage on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 63.8 × 48.5 cm (25 1/8 × 19 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Delaney Fund and Endowment
Reference Number: 1996.5

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