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Here are some interesting facts about Red Grooms: His given name is Charles Rogers Grooms, but he began going by his nickname after a gallery owner started calling him "Red" due to the vibrant color of his ginger hair. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, but has lived in New York City for more than 40 years. While still a student, Grooms struggled to find an academic program that was the right fit and switched schools a few times, attending the New School in New York, Peabody College in Nashville and a summer school run by Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He is well known for his large “sculpto-pictogramas,” which combine elements of painting and sculpture. The National Academy of Design presented Grooms with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. On 1stDibs, shop a range of Red Grooms art.
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Truck II (VEL 106; Knestrick 78), Red Grooms
By Red Grooms
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Red Grooms (1937)
Title: Truck II (VEL 106; Knestrick 78)
Year: 1979-1980
Medium: Color lithograph, screenprint, rubber stamp impressions on Arches paper
Edition: 5/8 A.P., 7...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
1988 'van Gogh with Sunflowers' HAND SIGNED Limited Edition
By Red Grooms
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This limited edition lithograph, titled Van Gogh with Sunflowers, was created by the celebrated American artist Red Grooms. The print is part of an exclusive edition of only 75, each...
Category
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$5,625 Sale Price
25% Off
Red Grooms Moonstruck Porcelain Sculpture Plate 3D Manhattan NYC Cartoon
By Red Grooms
Located in Surfside, FL
Moonstruck 1994
3D porcelain ceramic plate. limited edition.
Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown's Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann.
Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee during the middle of the Great Depression. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at Nashville's Peabody College. In 1956, Grooms moved to New York City, to enroll at the New School for Social Research. A year later, Grooms attended a summer session at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There he met experimental animation pioneer Yvonne Andersen, with whom he collaborated on several short films. Grooms follows in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, who were canny commentators on the human condition. In 1969, Peter Schjeldahl compared Grooms to Marcel Duchamp, because both embodied "a movement of one man that is open to everybody."
In the spring of 1958, Grooms, Yvonne Andersen and Lester Johnson each painted twelve-foot by twelve-foot panels, which they erected with telephone poles on a parking lot adjacent an amusement park in Salisbury, MA. Inspired by artist-run spaces such as New York's Hansa Gallery and Phoenix, and Provincetown's Sun Gallery, Grooms and painter Jay Milder opened the City Gallery in Grooms' second-floor loft in the Flatiron District. When Phoenix refused to show Claes Oldenburg, Grooms and Milder dropped out of Phoenix and City Gallery presented Oldenberg's first New York exhibition, as well as that of Jim Dine. Other artists who showed at City Gallery include Stephen Durkee, Mimi Gross (daughter of Chaim Gross and Red grooms wife), Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson, and Alex Katz.
Inspired by George Méliès's 1902 film A Trip to the Moon...
Category
1990s Pop Art Mixed Media
Materials
Porcelain, Screen
Sarajevo, Pop Art Permanent Marker on Paper Drawing by Red Grooms
By Red Grooms
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Red Grooms
Title: Sarajevo
Year: 1968
Medium: Marker Drawing on Paper, Signed and Dated l.l.
Paper Size: 13.5 x 19 inches (34.29 x 48.26 cm)
Frame: 17 x 22.5 inches (43.18 x ...
Category
1960s Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Guggenheim, Pop Art Lithograph Poster by Red Grooms
By Red Grooms
Located in Long Island City, NY
Red Grooms, American (1937 - ) - Guggenheim, Year: 1972, Medium: Lithograph Poster on Cartridge Paper (unsigned), Size: 39 in. x 26 in. (99.06 cm x 66.04 cm), Description: Depict...
Category
1970s Pop Art Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Samurai
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 40.
Red Grooms and Master printer Bud Shark began their many print collaborations in 1981 with “Mountaintime”, followed in 1982 by their first three-dimensional lithograph, “Ruckus...
Category
1990s Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,000