Robert Indiana

1961-"The Calumet"

Serigraph, 31.7" x 29.8", signed by the artist.

"Indian tribes of North America within a circle of text taken from 'Hiawatha', poet Longfellow's crimson paen to the vanishing Red Man and his equally disappearing world of nature, comprise THE CALUMET which itself translates as peace pipe and 'pukwana' that essence of brotherhood and oneness with the world obtained by the smoking of same and represents the culmination of the artist's most literary and star-filled period."

Excerpt from Galería Colibrí catalogue #52, Robert Indiana Decade, May 28, 1971.