Robert Indiana: A Career Defined By 'LOVE' No Longer

How 'LOVE' Made And Ruined One Artist's Career
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 25: Robert Indiana's 'LOVE' oil on canvas, a part of 'Robert Indiana: Beyond Love' exibition on display at The Whitney Museum of American Art on September 25, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 25: Robert Indiana's 'LOVE' oil on canvas, a part of 'Robert Indiana: Beyond Love' exibition on display at The Whitney Museum of American Art on September 25, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

In 1968, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art bought a painting called LOVE — and made artist Robert Indiana famous. It became a sculpture, a stamp, greeting cards.

And it obliterated the rest of Indiana's career. The artist has been pretty much ignored by the art world for the past few decades. Not sneered at, he says – just ignored.

"I wasn't aware that I was disrespected," he says, in a raspy baritone. "I've only been neglected."

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