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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 Carolina(Biography provided by Helicline Fine Art)
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Artist: Red Grooms
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color 3-D lithograph in Plexiglas box, Edition 50
Red Grooms revisits the rich subject matter of his New York City neighborhood in his new three-dimensional lithograph “Extra! Ext...
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Elvis
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 75
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...
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Western Pals
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 40.
Red Grooms is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, and showman par excellence. His major installations, “Ruckus Manhattan”, “The City of Chicago...
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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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Hand-signed and numbered "Rat" lithograph from "No Gas Portfolio" by Red Grooms
By Red Grooms
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Rat" lithograph from 1971 "No Gas" portfolio by Red Grooms. Hand-signed AP Red Grooms inside blue of Clorox bottle on front lower right. Image size: 22 x 27 1/2 inches. Depicts a N...
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Hand-signed "Local" lithograph by Red Grooms from the 1971 "No Gas" portfolio
By Red Grooms
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Local" lithograph by Red Grooms from the 1971 "No Gas" portfolio. Hand-signed AP Red Grooms in policeman's left shoe in bottom lower right of image. Depicts people on subway.
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Hand-signed "Taxi Pretzel" lithograph from 1971 "No Gas" portfolio by Red Grooms
By Red Grooms
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Taxi Pretzel" lithograph by Red Grooms from 1971 "No Gas" portfolio. Hand-signed Red Grooms AP on bottom of shoe on lower right corner. Image size: 27 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches.
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"Slushing" hand-signed lithograph by Red Grooms from the 1971 "No Gas" portfolio
By Red Grooms
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Slushing" lithograph by Red Grooms from 1971 "No Gas" portfolio. Signed AP at bottom of blue umbrella in center of image and Red Grooms on shoe in lower right corner. Depicts people...
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"The Guggenheim, 10 Independents" 1972 AP lithograph hand-signed by Red Grooms
By Red Grooms
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"The Guggenheim, 10 Independents" 1972 lithograph hand-signed Red Grooms AP inside figure of woman on bottom right corner of work. The work promotes the January 14 through February 2...
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Creative Time Inc. Red Grooms exhibition poster
By Red Grooms
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Original exhibition poster for Ruckus Manhattan by Red Grooms and the Ruckus Construction Company, 1975. Presented by Creative Time, Inc. Lithograph with offset lithographic photo elements, sheet measures 23 x 29 inches; 24 x 30 inches framed. Design by M. Samuels. Produced by Polychrome Lithography Co., Inc, NYC. Condition is outstanding with no damage or conservation. No creasing, staining, toning or fading.
A rare poster from an early show produced by Creative Time Inc. while only in their 2nd season. A lovely document of NYC art history.
Ruckus Manhattan was a multimedia, three-dimensional representation of Manhattan on display on the ground level of 88 Pine Street. The out-of-scale model, constructed of papier-mâché, wood, plastic, fiberglass, and vinyl, was designed to conform to Manhattan’s psychic dimensions, rather than its physical ones, and included such landmarks as the Apollo Theatre, the Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park, the Chrysler Building, the Stock Exchange floor, Trinity Church, and the World Trade Center. Finding inspiration in sources as diverse as cubism and newspaper comics, Red and Mimi Gross Grooms...
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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...
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1990s Contemporary Red Grooms More Prints
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The Carriage Trade
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color 3-D lithograph in wood frame
In Red Grooms’ newest three-dimensional print, "The Carriage Trade", the artist once again casts his acute eye on ...
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Traffic!
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color 3-D lithograph, Edition 75.
Red Grooms is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, and showman par excellence. His major installations, “Ruckus Manhattan”, “The City of Chicago”, and “Tut’s Fever” have stretched the boundaries of sculpture and painting and excited the imaginations of thousands of viewers.
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 Taxi”. The range of prints produced by Grooms and Shark include `flatsos’, flat-color lithographs, like “Elvis” and “Van Gogh with Sunflowers”, three-dimensional lithographs, “London Bus”, “Little Italy” and “Times Square”, three-dimensional lithographs with moving parts, “Red’s Roxy”, and “Holy Hula”, woodcuts, “Noa...
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1990s Contemporary Red Grooms More Prints
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Lithograph
Ruckus Tugboat
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color 3-D lithograph in Plexiglas box, Ed. 45.
Grooms, who has devoted much of his distinguished career to portraying his New York City home, turns his eye to New York’s harbor and its hardworking tugboats in this three-dimensional lithograph. This tug, the ”Lysiane”, steams through rolling waves…with smoke billowing from the smokestack. Sailing past a buoy with a seagull perched on top….the deck hand prepares to throw a lifesaver to a man overboard. Hidden in the waters are a green suited man with concrete...
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Lithograph
Ruckus Taxi
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color 3-D lithograph in Plexiglas box. Edition 75
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 Taxi...
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1980s Contemporary Red Grooms More Prints
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Lithograph
Red Bud Diner
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 75
Red Grooms and Master printer Bud Shark began their many print collaborations in 1981 with "Mountaintime", followed in 1982 by their first three-dimen...
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Matisse in the Souk II
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype
Completed after a recent trip to Morocco, this print continues Grooms’ series of tributes to modern masters. Grooms imagined this scene as he followed the footsteps...
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Picasso
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color 3-D lithograph, Edition 75.
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...
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1990s Contemporary Red Grooms More Prints
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Dixie's
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 75.
Red Grooms is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, and showman par excellence. His major installations, “Ruckus Manhattan”, “The City of Chicago”, and “Tut’s Fever” have stretched the boundaries of sculpture and painting and excited the imaginations of thousands of viewers.
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 Taxi”. The range of prints produced by Grooms and Shark include `flatsos’, flat-color lithographs, like “Elvis” and “Van Gogh with Sunflowers”, three-dimensional lithographs, “London Bus”, “Little Italy” and “Times Square”, three-dimensional lithographs with moving parts, “Red’s Roxy”, and “Holy Hula”, woodcuts, “Noa...
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1990s Contemporary Red Grooms More Prints
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Lithograph
Elvis IV
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monoprint
Red Grooms is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, and showman par excellence. His major installations, “Ruckus Manhattan”, “The City of Chicago”, and “Tut’s Fever” have stretched the boundaries of sculpture and painting and excited the imaginations of thousands of viewers.
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 Taxi”. The range of prints produced by Grooms and Shark include `flatsos’, flat-color lithographs, like “Elvis” and “Van Gogh with Sunflowers”, three-dimensional lithographs, “London Bus”, “Little Italy” and “Times Square”, three-dimensional lithographs with moving parts, “Red’s Roxy”, and “Holy Hula”, woodcuts, “Noa Noa...
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1980s Contemporary Red Grooms More Prints
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Matisse Cut Outs VI
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype with hand coloring and collage
In 2015, Grooms completed a series of colorful monotype collages, a tribute to Henri Matisse. The Matisse Cut Outs...
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms More Prints
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Pollock's Model A
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 75.
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...
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1990s Contemporary Red Grooms More Prints
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Jackson in Action
By Red Grooms
Located in Lyons, CO
Color 3-D lithograph in Plexiglas box, Edition 75
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 Taxi...
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