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ROBERT INDIANA
Born in New Castle, Indiana 1928. Spent first seventeen years in and around
Indianapolis. Attended: John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis 1945-46; Munson-
Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica 1947-48; Art Institute of Chicago 1949-53 where he
received a scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine.
Attended University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art 1953-54. 1954 moved to
New York City, where he now lives. One-man shows include: Stable Gallery, New York,
1962; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1963 (with Richard Stankiewicz). Some group
exhibitions: "New Forms-New Media," Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1960; "New
Realists," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1962; "Pop Art U.S.A.," Oakland Art Museum,
California, 1963; "New Forms-New Shapes," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1966; "Word
and Image," Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1968.
JASPER JOHNS
Born in Augusta, Georgia 1930. Spent childhood in Allendale, South Carolina. Attended
the University of South Carolina 1947-48. 1949 went to New York; drafted, spent two years
in Japan. 1952 returned to New York, doing odd jobs till 1958, when he had first one-man
show at the Leo Castelli Gallery. Shared building on Pearl Street with Rauschenberg.
Became friends with Cunningham and Cage. 1957 did window displays with
Rauschenberg for Tiffany's and other stores. 1959 met Marcel Duchamp, wrote
translation of Duchamp's "Green Box," 1960. Some group exhibitions: "Second
Generation," Jewish Museum of New York, 1957; "Collage International," Contemporary
Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 1958; "Sixteen Americans," Museum of Modern Art, New
York, 1959; "American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists," Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1961. Lives in New York City and Stony Point, New York.
RAY JOHNSON
Born in Detroit, Michigan 1927. Studied: Art Students League, New York, and Black
Mountain College with Albers, Motherwell, Zadkine, and Mary Callery. Member American
Abstract Artists 1949-52. 1962 created New York Correspondance School of Art. 1965
published The Paper Snake. One-man shows include: Willard Gallery, New York, 1965,
'66, '67; Feigen Gallery, Chicago, 1966-67. Some group exhibitions: "Cool Ages,"
Boylston Street Print Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1955; "Gang-Bang," Batman
Gallery, San Francisco, 1961; "Pop Art U.S.A.," Oakland Art Museum, California, 1963;
"Art in the Mirror," Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966. Lives in New York City.155
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