Robert Indiana (INSCRIBED by Robert L. B. Tobin)
Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1911-19491977. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Tobin "For Norman and Muriel with Love at Christmas 1977." Additionally INSCRIBED by RLBT in color illustrated card 19" x 25" (folded 9 1.2" x 12 1/2"). Folio; 59pp . Color and black & white illustrations. Faint foxing to foredge, else a fine copy in black leatherette; 'Robert Indiana' stamped in silver at lower corner of cover. Item #22917
Exhibition catalog for the second one-man retrospective of Indiana's works, which traveled to five museums between September 1977 at the University Art Museum in Austin concluding at The Art Center in South Bend IN in July 1978. Features full-page color illustrations of Indiana's Highball on the Redball Manifest (1963); Art (1972): The Demuth American Dream No. 5 (1963): The Dietary (1962); Year of Meteors (1961); The Metamorphosis of Norma Jean Mortenson (1967); and Decade: Autoportrait (1965, 1972-75) and numerous b/w illustrations. Includes a chronology and checklist of Indiana's work.
Robert L. B. Tobin was a notable San Antonio philanthropist (the Tobin Wing at the McNay Art Museum was opened in his honor in 1988). Tobin underwrote 'Don Carlos' for the opening celebration of HemisFair, the official World’s Fair, in 1968 where he served as Cultural Vice-President. Robert Indiana was commissioned to create the official poster for HemisFair, during which the largest collection of Indiana’s work to date was installed at the McNay Art Museum. With Tobin’s involvement with HemisFair, and his close ties to the McNay, it is perhaps during this time that Tobin’s friendship with Robert Indiana began to flourish. In the coming years, Tobin became one of Robert Indiana’s largest collectors and a number of his paintings and graphics are included in this exhibition.
Price: $250.00