Robert Indiana kept a series of illustrated journals during the late 1950s and 1960s, in which he discusses the development of his work as well as his daily life on Coenties Slip.

This journal page covers June 3–4, 1959, and June 3–4, 1960. In his first entry, for June 3, 1959, Indiana records meeting up with two different friends, and declares that it was "obviously a day frittered away."

The next entry on the page is for June 3, 1960, the day of the New Media—New Forms I opening at the Martha Jackson Gallery. Indiana's sculpture French Atomic Bomb (1959–60) was included in the show. Indiana describes his day in Scarsdale, where he taught at the Scarsdale Studio Workshop, and notes that he got to the gallery around 6:45 p.m. He records that most of the people, including Sven Lukin and Claes Oldenburg, were on the sidewalk cooling off, as it was "New York's first humidiously unbearable day." He continues:

"J. [his partner, fashion designer John Kloss] and Art [clinical psychologist and art collector Arthur Carr] were inside, J. looking crisp and Art suffering. Agnes was there, completely wilted. I saw Mr. [Robert] Mayer, Mrs. [Betty] Parsons, and Mr. [Leo] Castelli from the New York art world. But the larger surprise was Anne [sic] [Wilson], her husband Bill, father-in-law, mother-in-law [May Wilson] (in [the] show)."

The third entry on the page is for June 4, 1959. Indiana records meeting his friend Eric for a show and shopping, and having dinner with his friend Ted. They also visited Claes Oldenburg's show in the Judson Gallery. Indiana notes that Oldenburg was there, and that Ted was "unimpressed."

The last entry is for June 4, 1960. Indiana notes getting up at 8 a.m. and going directly to Water Street to get columns (which he used for sculptures). He writes that he "dropped into [the] basement [to] recover all [the] capitals and found more than columns I asked for: 7."