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Red Grooms, Rover, 1996

Name: Red Grooms, Rover, 1996
Brand: Red Grooms
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Red Grooms

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Red Grooms, Rover, 1996

Color lithograph on wove paper

Color lithograph on wove paper
Boldly signed and numbered 42/75 in red marker on the front
this work is held in its original frame with the original PACE Prints label on the back.
Provenance:
Acquired from the private collection of Douglas S. Cramer, Los Angeles
Published by PACE Prints, New York with label verso
Measurements:
Framed:
7.5 inches (vertical) by 5.5 inches (horizontal) by .75
Lithograph
2.6 inches vertical by 2.6 inches horizontal

This charming piece, rarely found on the marketplace, was acquired from the collection of Douglas Cramer, (August 22, 1931 – June 4, 2021) a top American television producer who worked for Paramount Television and Spelling Television, producing series such as Mission: Impossible, The Brady Bunch, and Dynasty - who amassed one of the most distinguished collections of contemporary art in the United States.
RED GROOMS Biography
Born Charles Rogers Grooms in Nashville, Tennessee, the red-headed artist Red Grooms attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the New School for Social Research, and the Hans Hofmann School on Cape Cod. During the 1950s and 1960s Grooms participated in happenings with fellow New York artists Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, and Jim Dine. Their nonverbal, theatrical presentations often required constructed sets; Grooms' interest in both performance and setting has continued in his art.

The visual energy of Grooms' paintings and sculpture engages audiences immediately. Grooms is best known for extending pop art into life-size environmental constructions. A Texas rodeo, a slice of downtown Chicago, and a New York subway car are among his large-scale "sculpto-pictoramas" peopled with cartoonlike characters. Most famous is Ruckus Manhattan, created in 1975 by Grooms and his assistants--technicians and artists--called the Ruckus Construction Company. It includes a thirty-foot-tall model of the World Trade Center glowing with lights, a fifteen-foot Statue of Liberty, and a swaying Brooklyn Bridge.

In addition to environments, Grooms has also produced films and made prints, bronze sculpture, and three-dimensional paper "portraits." Movie stars, city life, and famous artists have been his major subjects.