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Seven Outside - Indianapolis Museum of Art - Exhibitions - Robert Indiana

Poster for the Inaugural Exhibition of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1970. Photo: Courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields; Artwork: © Morgan Art Foundation Ltd./Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Seven Outside, an exhibition of sculpture in conjunction with the Indianapolis Museum of Art's inaugural exhition, marked the public debut of LOVE, Indiana’s monumental, twelve-foot-high, Cor-Ten steel sculpture. Indiana also designed the poster for the museum’s inaugural exhibition, in which he used his ART image in a circular format for the first time. 

In October of 1971 LOVE made its debut in Boston, at the Institute of Contemporary Art's exhibition Monumental Sculpture for Public Spaces, where it remained until November 14. From November 29, 1971–January 5, 1972 the sculpture was installed in New York's Central Park. 

Installation Views

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Installation of Indiana's LOVE, 1966, at Fifth Avenue and Sixtieth Street, New York, November 1971. Photo: Eliot Elisofon. Eliot Elisofon Papers and Photography Collection, 1930-1988, undated [bulk 1942-1973]. The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center

Installation of Indiana's LOVE, 1966, at Fifth Avenue and Sixtieth Street, New York, November 1971. Photo: Eliot Elisofon. Eliot Elisofon Papers and Photography Collection, 1930-1988, undated [bulk 1942-1973]. The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center

Installation of Indiana's LOVE, 1966, at Fifth Avenue and Sixtieth Street, New York, November 1971. Photo: Eliot Elisofon. Eliot Elisofon Papers and Photography Collection, 1930-1988, undated [bulk 1942-1973]. The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center

Installation of Indiana's LOVE, 1966, at Fifth Avenue and Sixtieth Street, New York, November 1971. Photo: Eliot Elisofon. Eliot Elisofon Papers and Photography Collection, 1930-1988, undated [bulk 1942-1973]. The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center