Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 7

Robert Indiana
An Honest Man Has Been President: JIMMY CARTER (Sheehan 112) Silkscreen Signed/N

1980

$18,000
£13,828.73
€15,889.06
CA$25,319.23
A$28,445.02
CHF 14,862.57
MX$347,184.77
NOK 188,711.19
SEK 177,631.82
DKK 118,570.06

About the Item

Robert Indiana An Honest Man Has Been President: Homage to Jimmy Carter (Sheehan, 112), 1980 Color silkscreen on off white wove paper 23 1/2 × 19 3/5 inches Pencil signed and numbered 30/150 on the front Published by Democratic National Committee, Washington, D.C. Iconic Pop Art silkscreen Unframed This is the coveted silkscreen -- published in 1980 - to raise funds for Jimmy Carter's Presidential re-election campaign; It is fully referenced in the catalogue raisonne of Robert Indiana's prints, (Sheehan, 112) About Robert Indiana: One of the preeminent figures in American art since the 1960s, Robert Indiana played a central role in the development of assemblage art, hard-edge painting, and Pop art. Indiana, a self proclaimed “American painter of signs,” created a highly original body of work that explores American identity, personal history, and the power of abstraction and language, establishing an important legacy that resonates in the work of many contemporary artists who make the written word a central element of their oeuvre. Robert Indiana was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana on September 13, 1928. Adopted as an infant, he spent his childhood moving frequently throughout his namesake state. His artistic talent was evident at an early age, and its recognition by a first grade teacher encouraged his decision to become an artist. In 1942, Indiana moved to Indianapolis in order to attend Arsenal Technical High School, known for its strong arts curriculum. After graduating he spent three years in the U.S. Air Force and then studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting in Maine, and the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. In 1956, two years after moving to New York, Indiana met Ellsworth Kelly, and upon his recommendation took up residence in Coenties Slip, once a major port on the southeast tip of Manhattan. There he joined a community of artists that would come to include Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, and Jack Youngerman. The environment of the Slip had a profound impact on Indiana’s work, and his early paintings include a series of hard-edge double ginkgo leaves inspired by the trees which grew in nearby Jeannette Park. He also incorporated the ginkgo form into his nineteen-foot mural Stavrosis (1958), a crucifixion pieced together from forty-four sheets of paper that he found in his loft. It was upon completion of this work that Indiana adopted the name of his native state as his own. Indiana, like some of his fellow artists, scavenged the area’s abandoned warehouses for materials, creating sculptural assemblages from old wooden beams, rusted metal wheels, and other remnants of the shipping trade that had thrived in Coenties Slip. While he created hanging works such as Jeanne d’Arc (1960–62) and Wall of China (1960–61), the majority were freestanding constructions which Indiana called “herms” after the sculptures that served as boundary markers at crossroads in ancient Greece and Rome. The discovery of nineteenth-century brass stencils led to the incorporation of brightly colored numbers and short emotionally charged words into these sculptures as well as canvases, and became the basis of his new painterly vocabulary.
  • Creator:
    Robert Indiana (1928 - 2018, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1980
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 23.5 in (59.69 cm)Width: 19.75 in (50.17 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    very good condition with no apparent issues; the margin are an off-white cream.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1745216094642

More From This Seller

View All
HOPE for America, signed and numbered silkscreen, Red White and Blue patriotic
By Robert Indiana
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana HOPE, 2008 Oil silkscreen in colors on watermarked Coventry archival paper 25 × 19 inches Edition 138/200 Signed, dated and number...
Category

Early 2000s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

The Golden Future of America (Sheehan, 92), Pop Art silkscreen, Signed/N Framed
By Robert Indiana
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana The Golden Future of America (Sheehan, 92), 1976 Silkscreen on Arches paper Signed and dated in pencil, lower right; number...
Category

1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Postcard signed, inscribed by Robert Indiana about his portrait at Coenties Slip
By Robert Indiana
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana "My portrait was taken on Coenties Slip"...., 1993 Handwritten letter on an offset lithograph postcard Boldly signed in black marker under the letter 4 2/5 × 7 3/5 inches Unframed Unique one-of-a-kind hand written, hand signed note from Robert Indiana, dated 23 VII '93, written on the postcard depicting Robert Indiana's work "Mother and Father", published by the Farnsworth Museum in Maine. The note, done in black marker, is addressed to Don Allan II of Barrington, N.H. and reads" "DON - MY PORTRAIT IF YOU DO NOT KNOW, WAS TAKEN ON COENTIES SLIP IN NYC". Robert Indiana then signs the note.. (Presumably, the reply is in response to a letter or question this fan sent to the artist asking where Indiana's portrait was taken). Makes a great gift for Robert Indiana fans! Coenties Slip is a historic artist's address in the New York art scene - there was even a book written about it! Coenties Slip is a street in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. It runs southeast for two blocks in Lower Manhattan from Pearl Street to South Street. A walkway runs an additional block north from Pearl Street to Stone Street Here's an excerpt from Art in America reviewing the book: "How does specificity of place play a role in art, enough to become more figure than ground, less a context than a character? This is one of the larger questions framing art historian Prudence Peiffer’s momentous new survey The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever. The book vividly documents a moment in the 1950s and ’60s when a cast of artists settled, at staggered intervals, in a three-block area around Coenties Slip, a street on Manhattan’s lower tip. Coenties Slip borrowed its name from one of the “slips”—inlets for the docking and repairing of boats—that once cut sharply into New York’s downtown waterfront, facilitating the busy circulation of fish, freight, and sailors between land and sea. While New York’s status as a maritime trading hub lured fleets of boats, it was the skeletal remains of that activity, by then sharply diminished, that drew artists to Coenties Slip. In place of industry, they found vast and vacant loft spaces, cheap to rent, in which they could both work and live (illegally, owing to zoning laws)....Peiffer’s book arrives nearly 50 years after the earliest attempt to honor the Slip: the 1974 exhibition “Nine Artists/Coenties Slip,” organized for an old downtown branch of the Whitney Museum on Water Street nearby. The exhibition showcased lesser-known inhabitants of the Slip, including Fred Mitchell (the first to settle there), Ann Wilson...
Category

1990s Pop Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Lithograph, Offset

Decade: Autoportrait, 1969 (Sheehan, 78), historic lithograph Signed/N, Framed
By Robert Indiana
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana Decade: Autoportrait, 1969 (Sheehan, 78), 1973 Color lithograph on off white wove paper Signed and numbered 84/125 in pencil on the front Frame included: This work is...
Category

1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

1 (One), from the original Numbers portfolio (Sheehan 46-55)
By Robert Indiana
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana 1, from the original Numbers portfolio (Sheehan 46-55), 1968 Color Silkscreen on Wove Paper Limited Edition of 2500 Not Signed Frame included: Elegantly matted and fra...
Category

1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Rare 1960s Stable Gallery exhibition poster (hand signed with a love doodle)
By Robert Indiana
Located in New York, NY
Robert Indiana Vintage Stable Gallery exhibition poster (hand signed), 1962 Silkscreen on wove paper Signed in the artist's shorthand signature with a love doodle on the back Unnumbe...
Category

1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

You May Also Like

The President, Pop Art Screenprint from the American Dream by Robert Indiana
By Robert Indiana
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Indiana, American (1928 - 2018) Title: The President from the American Dream Portfolio Year: 1961 (1997) Medium: Screenprint Edition Size: 395 Image Size: 17 x 14 inch...
Category

1960s Pop Art More Prints

Materials

Screen

The President
By Robert Indiana
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Robert Indiana Medium: Original serigraph Title: The President Portfolio: The American Dream Year: 1997 Edition: 61/395 Image Size: approx. 9 7/8...
Category

1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Liberty, Offset Pop Art Screenprint by Robert Indiana
By Robert Indiana
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Indiana Title: Liberty from Kent-Bicentennial Portfolio Spirit of Independence Year: 1975 Medium: Offset Lithograph Paper Size: 14 x 17 inches Frame: 19 x 18 inches F...
Category

1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset

New Glory Banner, Serigraph from the American Dream Portfolio by Robert Indiana
By Robert Indiana
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Indiana, American (1928 - 2018) Title: New Glory Banner from the American Dream Portfolio Year: 1963 (1997) Medium: Serigraph Edition: 395 Image Size: 17 x 10 inches S...
Category

1960s Pop Art More Prints

Materials

Screen

"Number 7", Silkscreen from the American Dream Portfolio by Robert Indiana
By Robert Indiana
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Indiana, American (1928 - 2018) Title: Number 7 from the American Dream Portfolio Year: 1968 (1997) Medium: Screenprint on Wove Paper Edition Size: 395 Image Size: 16....
Category

1990s Pop Art More Prints

Materials

Screen

The Beware Danger, Pop Art Screenprint by Robert Indiana
By Robert Indiana
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Indiana, American (1928 - 2018) Title: The Beware Danger from the American Dream Portfolio Year: 1963 (1997) Medium: Screenprint Edition: 395 Image Size: 14 x 14 inche...
Category

1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen