about The Calumet from the American Dream Portfolio

In this pop art print by Robert Indiana (American, 1928-2018), he examines the relationships between the Native American tribes and their native land.

Robert Indiana said this of the painting created in 1961 “. . . Calumet is a town in Indiana in relation to Chicago and I was struck by that coincidence…then I went into heroics and The Calumet is a heroic painting. It isn’t about geography, it’s about Longfellow and the Hiawatha and the continent’s first citizens and again a great tragedy.”