Robert Indiana "LOVE" Donated to Huntington
Rockefeller Center installation of Robert Indiana's LOVE , 1966 (design) and 1999 (fabricated). The Huntington sculpture is from this edition. Image courtesy of The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative. ©2026 The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative LLC / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Terri and Jerry Kohl have donated a 12-ft Robert Indiana "LOVE" sculpture to the Huntington. To be installed outside the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art before the end of the year, it will become the most recognizable outdoor sculpture on the campus. Robert Indiana (1928–2018) devised the distinctive, four-letter rendering in a 1964 drawing. Art historian Susan Ryan traces the idea further to an earlier drawing of the word "FUCK" on two lines, with the U slanted. Indiana made that drawing after his breakup from Ellsworth Kelly. The slanted U is said to have represented emotional vulnerability. Museum of Modern Art holiday card, 1965 A small, painted version of LOVE ...
