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Red Grooms Art

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
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Artist: Red Grooms
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 Art

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Screen

"Our First Brush With Red Grooms/ It Was Exciting!", Artist's actual paintbrush
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms "Our First Brush With Red Grooms/ It Was Exciting!", 1968 Paint brush with paint inside acrylic casing 11 × 3 1/2 × 2 inches Unframed This paint brush - with original pain...
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1960s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Synthetic, Plastic, Mixed Media, Acrylic

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 The artis...
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1980s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset

Extra Extra Read All About It, New York City Newsstand, 3D Construction, Signed
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms New York City Newsstand, "Extra, Extra Read All About It", 2003 Mixed Media 3-D Construction in Custom Fitted Lucite Box 20 × 26 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches Frame included Edition...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Lucite, Paper, Mixed Media, Screen

Ruckus Rodeo, unique acrylic painting by famed Pop artist, signed, framed, label
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Ruckus Rodeo, 1975 Acrylic and felt tip pen on paper Signed and dated in black felt marker Unique work Provenance: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, with original label verso Fr...
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1970s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Acrylic, Felt Pen

Red Grooms Grand Central Terminal (signed and inscribed to famed estate atty)
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Grand Central Terminal (signed and inscribed to renowned attorney), 1993 Offset lithograph poster (signed and inscribed in marker to Herbert Nass) Signed, inscribed to Her...
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1990s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph, Offset

Red Grooms, Mr. Chuck Berry, color silkscreen with 3-D collage, signed/n framed
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Mr. Chuck Berry, 1978 Original silkscreen in colors with 3D construction and die-cut collage on paper Signed and numbered 9/25 AP in graphite pencil on the front Frame inc...
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1970s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Screen, Mixed Media

“Wounded bird”
By Red Grooms
Located in Warren, NJ
This is a lithograph signed and numbered . Measures 26x13. There is some spotting on the overall still a great piece.
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20th Century Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

Red Grooms Canal St Chinatown Manhattan New York City Lithograph Cartoon Pop Art
By Red Grooms
Located in Surfside, FL
Red Grooms (American, b. 1937). Lithograph in colors on wove paper, 1993 "East of Canal Street, Corner of Canal." Published by the Brooklyn Museum (Reference: Red Grooms: The Graphic Work, Walter G. Knestrick. Harry Abrams Inc Publishers, New York, 2001. Cat. no 138 page 172, Alexander & Cowles 138). Downtown Manhattan, New York City Chinatown Street scene with various vendors. Hand signed in black crayon and numbered on image at bottom edge. "8/115 Red Grooms." Dimensions 22" x 30" Printer: Sharks Lithographs Ltd, Boulder, CO 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. Red Grooms came of age in the shadow of the Abstract Expressionists. 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. Grooms never developed the detached stance of such Pop Art practitioners as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein or James Rosenquist. Instead he painted his own life, and became, literally, an actor on the stage of life -- in this case the art-as-life "happenings" of the downtown New York scene. Inspired by George Méliès's 1902 film A Trip to the Moon...
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1990s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

Original American Pop Art Multi Media "Pancake Eater" Plexiglass Artist's Proof
By Red Grooms
Located in Portland, OR
The Pancake Eater, 1981 by Red Grooms (b. 1937), an Artist's Proof, 2 of 9 (apart from the edition of 31). Multi-layer lithograph and silkscreen in 31 colors with gold radiance powder. Cut out collage and vinyl window shade with pull-cord in original acrylic box frame. A wonderful & whimsical piece of Pop Art by one of America's most famous Pop Artists, please see the video attached. Signed and dated in red pencil, lower right, an Artist's Proof numbered 2 of 9 on a brass plaque affixed to the reverse of the original acrylic box frame. Co-published by Brooke Alexander, Inc. and Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York. Condition is excellent. Born in Nashville Tennesee in 1937 Red Grooms is a; "Sculptor, painter, installation artist, filmmaker, and printmaker. An eager participant in late 1950s happenings, in the 1960s he developed high-spirited, mixed-media environmental sculpture on an enormous scale. In these “sculpto-pictoramas,” as he has called them, multiple, life-size, cartoonish figures inhabit sharply observed localities, usually areas of New York. Related to pop art, his zany work often carries a sarcastic edge but not at the expense of good-natured hilarity. It also plays on nostalgia that stems from the artist's evident affection for his acutely rendered subjects, as befits an admirer of Edward Hopper's paintings. Charles Roger Grooms left Peabody College there to enroll in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a year. He then decamped for New York to continue his studies at the New School for Social Research (now New School). He also attended Hans Hofmann's summer school in Provincetown. In the late 1950s, along with Allan Kaprow...
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1980s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Plexiglass, Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Lithograph

Truck I (VEL 105; Knestrick 77)
By Red Grooms
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Red Grooms (1937) Title: Truck I (VEL 105; Knestrick 77) Year: 1979-1980 Medium: Lithograph, screenprint, rubber stamp impressions on Arches paper Edition: 36, plus 11 artist...
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1970s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph, Screen

1976 POP-ART Acrylic Abstract Oil Painting Ruckus Manhattan 3D NYC Project
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale, a Red Grooms (B 1937) POP ART Original Acrylic Painting done for Ruckus Manhattan. Again, the painting is an ABSTRACT ACRYLIC painting on board, Dated 1976 This Origin...
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1970s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Oil, Acrylic

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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1990s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

Monograph with 3-D sculptural pop-up (Hand signed and numbered by Red Grooms)
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Redgrooms, 2004 Hardback monograph with 3-D sculptural pop-up (signed and numbered in red marker on the artist's designed book plate) Signed and numbered 101/400 in red marker on the artist's designed book plate 13 × 10 × 1 1/2 inches Makes a superb gift! Lavishly illustrated with a pop-up/multiple taken out of the book with its signed & numbered label is often removed, exhibited under plexiglass, and sold separately for several thousand dollars. This fully pre-assembled pop-up with integral base at rear is a re-working of Grooms' iconic New York Taxi of 1986 - which in turn was based on his earlier giant Ruckus NY taxi sculpture...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset, Board

Marilyn Monroe & Albert Einstein, Red Grooms
By Red Grooms
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Red Grooms (1937) Title: Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe Year: circa 1987 Medium: Monotype and mixed media on wove paper Size: 47.62 x 31.87 inches Condition: Excellent I...
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1980s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Monotype, Mixed Media

Mr. Chuck Berry, Pop Art Print by Red Grooms
By Red Grooms
Located in Long Island City, NY
Mr. Chuck Berry by Red Grooms, American (1937) Date: 1978 Screenprint with 3-D "Dancer", signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 127/150 Image Size: 24 x 18.25 inches Size: 33 x 26 ...
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1970s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Screen

Huge Red Grooms Monotype Oil Painting LA Hollywood Circus Film Cartoon Pop Art
By Red Grooms
Located in Surfside, FL
Red Grooms (American, b. 1937). Keystone Kops to the Rescue III. 2006. Triptych color monotype created by the artist with lithographic ink on plexiglass plates, and then hand-colored by the artist. Printed by master printer Bud Shark. Printed on White Rives BFK. A unique impression, signed by the artist in pencil lower right. 3 sheets. Each sheet is 30 x 44 ½ ”. Overall: 30 x 133 ½ ” This has all the wonderful components of a Red Grooms piece, Keystone Kops policemen, Circus, Cactus, Cowboys, Hollywood sign etc. 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. Red Grooms came of age in the shadow of the Abstract Expressionists. 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. Grooms never developed the detached stance of such Pop Art practitioners as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein or James Rosenquist. Instead he painted his own life, and became, literally, an actor on the stage of life -- in this case the art-as-life "happenings" of the downtown New York scene. Inspired by George Méliès...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Monoprint, Monotype

Red Grooms, Unique drawing of Provincetown Mass. beach, Pop Art Signed, framed
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
RED GROOMS (Untitled), for Alice + Bo, Provincetown 1966 Original ink drawing on paper Signed, inscribed and dated with a dateline of Provincetown on recto. Vintage frame included Th...
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1960s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Ink

The Daily Arf, Silkscreen & intaglio, man reading newspaper with his dog, Signed
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms The Daily Arf, 1974 Embossed Silkscreen and Blind Intaglio Hand signed and numbered: Pencil signed and dated 1974 lower right; pencil numbered from the edition of only 12 ...
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1970s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Intaglio, Screen

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 Art

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Color, Lithograph

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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1990s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

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 Art

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Offset, Lithograph

Masters at the Met
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Masters at the Met, 2002 color lithograph, edition of 75 29 3/4 x 35 in. / 75.6 x 88.9 cm Red Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937 and has lived in New York fo...
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Early 2000s Modern Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

Moonstruck (Homage to Cher), Limited Edition 3-D porcelain sculpted plate
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Moonstruck (Homage to Cher), 1994 Porcelain 3D Plate Artist signature fired into plate on the front and back. Edition 1976/2500 10 3/4 inch diamet...
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1990s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Ceramic, Screen

Taxi to the Terminal
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Taxi to the Terminal, 1993 color lithograph, ed. of 18 AP 22 x 30 in. / 55.9 x 76.2 cm
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1990s Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

Lee Krasner (Glasses) V
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Lee Krasner (Glasses) IV, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of V 18 1/4 x 22 7/8 in. (46.4 x 58.1 cm) Coinciding with the current presentation of recent paintings by Red Grooms is a new series of monotypes inspired by the 2018 book by Mary Gabriel...
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2010s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

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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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

At the Beach
By Red Grooms
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Red Grooms Title: At the Beach Year: 1970 Medium: Oil on Conjoined Wood, signed and dated lower center Size: 5 x 12.5 inches Frame: 14 x 21.5 inches
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1970s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Oil

Alma Thomas III
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Alma Thomas III, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of IV 26 3/4 x 20 in. (68 x 50.8 cm) Coinciding with the current presentation of recent paintin...
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

Frankenthaler (Graphite) IV
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Frankenthaler (Graphite) IV, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of VI 18 1/4 x 22 3/4 in. (46.4 x 57.8 cm)
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2010s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

Joan On the Bed IV
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Joan On the Bed IV, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of V 18 3/4 x 22 3/8 in. (47.6 x 56.8 cm) framed: 22 x 25 3/8 in. Coinciding with the current presentation of recent paintings by Red Grooms is a new series of monotypes inspired by the 2018 book by Mary Gabriel...
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

Cedar Bar (Rivers, Rothko, etc) V
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Cedar Bar (Rivers, Rothko, etc) V, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of VII 22 1/2 x 19 in. (57.1 x 48.3 cm)
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2010s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

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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1970s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

Perle Fine V
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Perle Fine V, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of VI 21 x 26 1/2 in. (53.3 x 67.3 cm) framed: 24 1/8 x 29 5/8 in.
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

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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1970s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

Joan Mitchell (Portrait) II
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Joan Mitchell (Portrait) II, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of IV 22 3/4 x 18 3/8 in. (57.8 x 46.7 cm) “The Sparkling Amazons,” the term coined by Thomas Hess to described five women who revolutionized the modern art world in postwar America, was a group comprised of Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler. The Irascibles, or Irascible 18, were the labels given to a group of American abstract painters who in 1950, penned an open letter to the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to express their intense disapproval and commitment to boycott the museum’s exhibition American Painting Today: 1950. The subsequent media coverage and iconic photo of the group published in Life Magazine in 1951 gave the Irascibles notoriety and helped to canonize the term ‘Abstract Expressionism.’ By reconstructing the image with the inclusion of all the notable Abstract Expressionist artists of the period, Red Grooms attempts to recognize the often-overlooked contribution by women artists to the AbEx movement and the significant role they played as bold innovators within the New York School during the 1940s and 1950s. Grooms became an active participant in 1957, joining the cooperative Phoenix Gallery on East 10th Street, the then heart of the art world. He would later start City Gallery with Jay Milder in his own loft on West 24th Street. “We were reacting to Tenth Street. In ’58 and ’59, Tenth Street was sort of like SoHo is now, and it was getting all the lively attention of everyone downtown. We were just kids in our twenties and had a flair for attracting people to our openings.” The series of monotypes were printed at Derriere L’Etoile Studios, a fine art printmaking studio which was founded by Maurice Sanchez in 1978. Sanchez notes, “Red Grooms in a print studio is like a three-year-old child in a toy store...
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

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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1970s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

Joan, Helen, Grace III
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Joan, Helen, Grace III, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of V 18 7/8 x 22 1/4 in. (47.9 x 56.5 cm) framed: 22 x 25 3/8 in.
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

Grace Hartigan (Color) VII
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Grace Hartigan (Color) VII, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of IX 23 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (59.1 x 47.6 cm) framed: 26 1/2 x 21 7/8 in.
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

Cedar Bar VI
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Cedar Bar VI, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of VI 19 x 22 1/2 in. (48.3 x 57.1 cm) framed: 24 1/8 x 29 1/2 in.
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

"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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1970s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

"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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1970s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

Helen Frankenthaler (Portrait) IV
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Helen Frankenthaler (Portrait) IV, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of IV 22 3/4 x 18 1/2 in. (57.8 x 46.4 cm)
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

Ruth and Pollock Sitting on Stairs III
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Ruth and Pollock Sitting on Stairs III, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of VI 21 x 26 1/2 in. (53.3 x 67.3 cm) framed: 24 x 29 5/8 in.
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

Betty Parsons Portrait III
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Betty Parsons Portrait III, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of V 26 1/6 x 20 in. (66.5 x 50.8 cm) framed: 29 1/8 x 23 1/4 in.
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

De Kooning, Kligman 10th St. VI
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
De Kooning, Kligman VI, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of VI 21 x 26 1/2 in. (53.3 x 67.3 cm) framed: 24 1/8 x 29 5/8 in.
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

Elaine (Plaid) II
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Elaine (Plaid) II, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of IV 22 13/16 x 18 1/2 in. (57.9 x 47 cm) framed: 25 7/8 x 21 1/2 in. Coinciding with the current presentation of recent paintings by Red Grooms is a new series of monotypes inspired by the 2018 book by Mary Gabriel...
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

Frankenthaler and Hartigan (Laughing) II
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Frankenthaler and Hartigan (Laughing) II, 2020 monotype, unique print from a series of IV 22 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (57.8 x 46.4 cm)
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2010s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Monotype

The Cedar Bar
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms The Cedar Bar, 1987 offset lithograph in 4 colors on film and Mylar on Arches Cover paper, ed. of 200 24 1/2 x 32 in. (62.2 x 81.2 cm)
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1980s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

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Lithograph

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...
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1990s Pop Art Red Grooms Art

Materials

Porcelain, Screen

Les Deux Magots
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Les Deux Magots, 1985 etching and aquatint, ed. of 90 26 1/4 x 31 3/8 in. (66.7 x 79.9 cm)
Category

1980s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

Materials

Aquatint, Etching

Matisse
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Matisse, 1976 lithograph, edition of 75 34 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (87.6 x 64.8 cm)
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1970s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

Materials

Lithograph

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1995 etching and aquatint in 4 colors on Somerset textured paper, ed. of 10 AP 20 3/4 x 26 in. (52.7 x 66 cm)
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1990s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

Materials

Aquatint, Etching

New York Sweet: Graveyard Ruckus
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms New York Sweet: Graveyard Ruckus, 1995 drypoint, etching, sugarlift, and aquatint on Somerset textured paper, ed. of 30 17 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (44.5 x 52.1 cm)
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1990s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

Materials

Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint

Heavy Metal
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Heavy Metal, 2009 black and white etching with aquatint, spitbite aquatint, and scraping, ed. of 20 17 1/2 x 19 in. (44.5 x 48.3 cm)
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Early 2000s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

Materials

Aquatint, Etching

Napo and Josephine
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Napo and Josephine, 2008 black and white etching with spitbite aquatint on Somerset textured white, ed. of 20 18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm)
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

Materials

Aquatint, Etching

Aubrey Beardsley
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms Aubrey Beardsley, 2008 black and white etching with spitbite aquatint on Somerset textured white, ed. of 20 22 x 18 1/2 in. (55.9 x 47 cm)
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Red Grooms Art

Materials

Aquatint, Etching

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...
Category

1970s Red Grooms Art

Materials

Etching

Red Grooms art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Red Grooms art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, pink, red and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Red Grooms in lithograph, etching, monotype and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Red Grooms art, so small editions measuring 4 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Ed Ruscha, James Rosenquist, and Jim Dine. Red Grooms art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $200 and tops out at $25,000, while the average work can sell for $2,800.
Questions About Red Grooms Art
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Red 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.
  • 1stDibs ExpertJune 6, 2024
    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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