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The Flatiron Building ©1995 Red Grooms |
Brooklyn Bridge Bustle 2002 Color litograph Image: 21.563 x 29.875 inches Sheet: 26.625 x 34 inches Edition of 75 Published by Marlborough Graphics, NY ©2002 Red Grooms |
Red Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the New School for Social Research, New York. In the 1950s Grooms moved to New York City to immerse himself in the art scene. For nearly fifty years Grooms has combined color, vibrancy, and a generous dose of self-deprecating humor to produce art in all media that provokes and delights. He pokes fun at the icons of American politics, entertainment, the art world, while paying homage to his subjects at the same time. No artist since Honoré Daumier has had a greater understanding of humor or a more direct connection to his audience. In return, Grooms has earned the public's unqualified admiration and appreciation.
As a painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker and theater designer Grooms' career to this point has been prolific. His graphic works alone includes an array of art forms including etchings, lithographs (two and three-dimensional), monotypes, woodblock prints and spray-painted stencils. Throughout the late 1980s and the mid 1990s Grooms devoted himself to a series of prints and three-dimensional works called New York Stories for which he is well known and admired.
The artist's work can be found in museums and private collections worldwide
including the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Fort Worth
Museum of Contemporary Art. Fort Worth Texas; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington, D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New
York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, California; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; and the
Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan.
For more information on the graphic work of Red Grooms, the following
book is available for sale at Marlborough Graphics:
"Red Grooms: The Graphic Work"
By Walter G. Knestrick
Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001
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Masters at the Met ©2002 Red Grooms |
Looking up Broadway, Again 1994 Color litograph 30 x 22 inches Edition of 75 Published by Marlborough Graphics, NY ©1994 Red Grooms |
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| Taxi to the Terminal 1994 Color litograph 24.75 x 32 inches Edition of 200 Published by Marlborough Graphics, NY ©1994 Red Grooms |
Rockefeller Center |
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Cedar Bar 1987 Color litograph 24.75 x 32 inches Edition of 200 Published by Marlborough Graphics, NY ©1987 Red Grooms |
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2 a.m., Paris, 1943 |
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