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Robert Indiana
Yield Brother, Signed Twice, Uniquely Inscribed with Original LOVE Drawing on verso (Sheehan, 69), 1983
Screenprint in colors on Schoellers Parole paper with original LOVE drawing and inscription in ink
Signed Twice, Uniquely Inscribed with Original LOVE Drawing on verso. Signed in yellow crayon on the front, and signed in black ink back.
Edition of 30 AP (uniquely annotated with signed drawing)
Frame included
Yield Brother, Signed Twice, Uniquely Inscribed with Original LOVE Drawing on verso Catalogue Raisonne: Sheehan, 69
This is an Artists Proof, aside from the regular edition of 200
The print also bears the artist’s copyright ink stamp. The edition was printed by Domberger, Stuttgart (Germany) and published by Multiples Inc. New York City.
Elegantly framed in a museum quality white wood frame under UV plexiglass
Measurements:
Framed
21 inches by 21 inches by 1.5 inches
Artwork (visible)
13.75 inches by 13.75 inches
Indiana's silkscreen, "Yield Brother, 1962", a 1983 print - signed TWICE by Robert Indiana, with an inscription bearing two small drawings. It is, exceptionally, inscribed in marker at the bottom front "For Frank, Xmas 1990, and signed by Robert Indiana. On the back, Robert Indiana further inscribed the work, with the text "Star of Hope, Vinalhaven, 25 XII 90, for Brother Frank, love, R. Indiana" - done boldly with black marker. The artist drew the image of a STAR near the text "Star of Hope", and the dedication LOVE, is written as a sculpture/drawing in the artist's inimitable hand. This work was a personal gift of the artist to his neighbor and close friend Frank Wall, who lived near Vinalhaven, Robert Indiana's famous retreat. This original, inscribed work, is signed twice by Robert Indiana: once on the front, and once on the back, along with a dedication on each side, bearing Robert Indiana's trademark star and love drawings. A collectors item, for true Robert Indiana fans: this silkscreen bears a message of brotherly love "Yield Brother", and it's inscription bears a similar message "For Brother Frank".
This 1983 screenprint was based upon the original painting that Robert Indiana did two decades earlier. The artist's website quotes him as follows:
"Yield Brother actually has been painted expressly for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and in it I have incorporated a symbol which the “Ban the Bomb” people use . . . They have adopted this symbol which is actually an old medieval symbol, and it is “death to man” is the significance of it. And, of course, that’s what the bomb stands for..."
Richard Brown Baker, Oral history interview with Robert Indiana, 1963 Sept. 12–Nov. 7, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, pp. 2–3.
Provenance
Gift of the artist to his neighbor and close friend Frank Wall of Vinalhaven, Maine
Bibliography
Sheehan, 69
