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STABLE GALLERY 33 EAST 74TH STREET, NEW YORK 21, N.Y. RE 7-0100

Age 34. Lived in Indiana and Illinois. Indiana(A pseudonym) does not associate his work with that of the other "Pop" artists, but with that of his friends Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Youngerman. He is also a serious poet, which is evident in the content value of the words in his compositions: "Not simply forms and their meanings, not simply spice in an abstract composition; they (are) used to express concrete, vivid meanings...to convey the substance of an esthetic idea on which the forms comment." (G.R. Swenson, "The New American Sign Painters," Art News, September, 1962.) Recently a noted historian of art saw this painting and 
made a quick, interpretive improvisation which went, roughly, as follows: "ItIs full of puns and meanings..the form of the D is a pun of the form of the numeral 10. Ten was an important symbolic number to Greeks.. The decagon approaches the circle which is the perfect figure, and a symbol of the Earth. Demeter is the Greek earthmother. The word Demeter contains Deme (people) and Meter (measure) which are both important ideas in the 
painting..."