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Can you identify this artist? Here are some clues:

This artist's last name was Clark, but he changed his name to the state in which he was born.

Words and bright colors are important elements in his art.

When he changed his name, he was finding another way to show how important words are to him.

Dubbing himself an "American painter of signs," he became one of several artists in the early sixties to adopt the language of commercial advertising for his work. He borrowed stenciled letters and numbers, and used strong colors and shapes because, like the ads themselves, they communicated directly and effectively.

Who is this artist?

ROBERT INDIANA

Pictured: Robert Indiana, born 1928, The Figure Five,1963, oil, 60 x 50 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase.