Red Grooms Abstract Prints
American, b. 1937
Charles Roger Grooms was born in 1937 in Nashville, Tennessee, a city that, with its lively honky-tonk scene and the theatricality of the historic Grand Ole Opry, would later influence much of his work. Nicknamed for his ginger hair, Red enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1955. A self-proclaimed “restless and undisciplined student,” Grooms spent the next few years moving between schools and cities, including the New School in New York, Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University) in Nashville, and Hans Hofmann’s summer school in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Frustrated with the academic track and anxious to enter the New York art scene, Grooms abandoned formal education to focus exclusively on creating art and securing exhibition opportunities in his Chelsea neighborhood. There, he found quick success and a supportive circle of artists that became close friends and collaborators.
From the start of his career, Grooms has worked in multiple media, from painting, printmaking, and sculpture, to installation art, filmmaking, and theatrical experiences known as “Happenings.” Much of his art blurs the boundaries between these different forms, such as his large-scale, carefully-crafted environments he calls “sculpto-pictoramas,” and smaller objects like Dalí Salad. In this example, Grooms combines silkscreened and lithographic elements with a wooden base and acrylic dome to create a three-dimensional portrait of the famous Surrealist artist.
Grooms is perhaps best known for his colorful and comedic commentary on the culture, politics, and figures associated with the American urban environment and art historical traditions. Relying on satire and caricature, Grooms’ art has paid homage to a wide range of artists including Rembrandt, Auguste Rodin, Thomas Eakins, and Benjamin West, as well as national icons like Thomas Jefferson and Chuck Berry. Grooms’ disparate output is so difficult to classify that he has been compared to the influential Dada artist, Marcel Duchamp. Like Duchamp, Grooms often deliberately confronts the art world establishment, noting in 1974 that “it’s good to have . . . something to go against.”
Despite his affinity for defying the mainstream, Grooms is routinely cited by scholars as one of the leading American artists of his generation and was honored with the National Academy of Design’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. The subject of a 1984 mid-career retrospective exhibition held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the artist’s work can be found in public collections across the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, as well as in many international museums.
- The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolinato
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Artist: Red Grooms
Aarrrrrrhh
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this three-dimensional color lithograph on Arches Cover paper in a Plexiglas case. Signed, dated and numbered 62/75 in pencil by Grooms. Printed at Bank Str...
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1970s Pop Art Red Grooms Abstract Prints
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Ruckus Manhattan, Historic offset lithograph poster, hand signed by Red Grooms
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms
Ruckus Manhattan (Hand signed), 1981
Historic Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Red Grooms)
11 × 28 inches
Hand signed by Red Grooms on the front
Unframed
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1980s Pop Art Red Grooms Abstract Prints
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Red Grooms, "Expedition" (aka "EAT", aka "Stockholm Print") Signed/N, Framed
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms
"Expedition" (aka "EAT", aka "Stockholm Print"), 1973
Silkscreen on 100% rag paper
Pencil signed, dated and numbered recto (front); Stamped in black on verso "© Copyright ...
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1970s Pop Art Red Grooms Abstract Prints
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Screen
Red Grooms, Nassau Red museum poster (hand signed in red marker by Red Grooms)
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms
Nassau Red poster (hand signed in red marker by Red Grooms), 2005
Offset lithograph poster
Hand signed by the artist with red marker on the front
32 × 22 inches
Unframed
T...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Red Grooms Abstract Prints
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De Kooning Breaks Through
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this three-dimensional color lithograph on Rives BFK wove paper, cut-out, glued and mounted on original white plastic base. Signed and numbered 18/75 in red...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Red Grooms Abstract Prints
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FALL OF JERICHO
By Red Grooms
Located in Portland, ME
Grooms, Red (American, born 1937). FALL OF JERICHO. Etching, 1971. Edition of 100. Signed, titled, and numbered 92/100, all in pencil. 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (plate), 12 3/8 x 12 3/8 i...
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1970s Red Grooms Abstract Prints
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- 1stDibs ExpertJune 6, 2024Here 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.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Red Grooms, an American painter and sculptor, is best known for his life-size Pop art, which are known as “sculpto-pictoramas.” Ruckus Manhattan is the most famous of these, created by Grooms in 1975 with help from his assistants. It includes a model of the World Trade Center that’s 30 feet tall, a swaying Brooklyn Bridge, and a 15-foot-tall Statue of Liberty. On 1stDibs, shop a selection of Red Grooms artwork from top sellers worldwide.