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‘Love’ sculpture artist Robert Indiana was an angry egomaniac, new book claims
Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein — Indiana viewed himself as a hard-edge painter in league with only the artist Ellsworth Kelly. While artists like the famously self-promoting Warhol got retrospectives that toured the US and Europe, Indiana brooded that he wasn’t better known. He was given a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art on one floor, but he wanted the whole museum — and would have preferred MOMA, at that. “This artist had the reputation for being reclusive. Another word people liked to use to describe him was hermit.
