Red Grooms

(American, born 1937)

Red Grooms is an American artist known for his painted-collage sculptures of both fictional and observed scenes. Characterized by his distinctive stylization and humorous portraits of people, Grooms’s works are constructed from illustration board and a hot glue gun, pieced together into a believable physical space. “In the New York works I’ve done I have tried to make it a kind of portraiture thing where I was really trying to get the texture of what I thought I saw, particularly in the neurosis of the population, and present it in context with the props—the mailboxes, fireplugs, any texture of the city,” he has explained. Born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937 in Nashville, TN, he went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, before moving to New York in 1956. There, Grooms befriended and exhibited with artists such as Alex KatzJim Dine, and Claes Oldenburg, gaining recognition for his unique take on Pop Art. In 1986, the award-winning film Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse was released, documenting the artist’s process and personality.  Grooms continues to live and work in New York, NY. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, among others.

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Self-portrait, 1976

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Self-portrait, 1976

Sale Date: September 24, 2009

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Cafe (from No Gas), 1971

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Cafe (from No Gas), 1971

Sale Date: September 17, 2009

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You can have a body like mine, 1978

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You can have a body like mine, 1978

Sale Date: June 28, 2009

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Red's Roxy, 1985

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Red's Roxy, 1985

Sale Date: June 4, 2009

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Subway (from New York, New York), 1983

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Subway (from New York, New York), 1983

Sale Date: June 4, 2009

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Fran tarkenton, 1979

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Fran tarkenton, 1979

Sale Date: June 4, 2009

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Museum, 1978

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Museum, 1978

Sale Date: June 4, 2009

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Mango mango, 1973

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Mango mango, 1973

Sale Date: June 4, 2009

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Little italy - Three dimensional, 1989

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Little italy - Three dimensional, 1989

Sale Date: May 17, 2009

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Fats domino - Three dimensional, 1984

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Fats domino - Three dimensional, 1984

Sale Date: May 17, 2009

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Truck II, 1979

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Truck II, 1979

Sale Date: May 12, 2009

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Jackson in action, 1997

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Jackson in action, 1997

Sale Date: May 3, 2009

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Los aficionados, 1990

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Los aficionados, 1990

Sale Date: May 3, 2009

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South Sea sonata, 1992

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South Sea sonata, 1992

Sale Date: May 3, 2009

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Charlie Chaplin, 1985

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Charlie Chaplin, 1985

Sale Date: May 3, 2009

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Sunflowers

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Sunflowers

Sale Date: May 3, 2009

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Face, 1958

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Face, 1958

Sale Date: April 22, 2009

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Sunflowers

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Sunflowers

Sale Date: December 10, 2008

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You can have a body like mine, 1978

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You can have a body like mine, 1978

Sale Date: December 7, 2008

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Subway, 1986

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Subway, 1986

Sale Date: December 6, 2008

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Elvis, 1987

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Elvis, 1987

Sale Date: November 23, 2008

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De Kooning breaks through, 1987

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De Kooning breaks through, 1987

Sale Date: November 23, 2008

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Franklin's reception at the Court of France, 1982

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Franklin's reception at the Court of France, 1982

Sale Date: November 20, 2008

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Mid-rat, 1981

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Mid-rat, 1981

Sale Date: November 20, 2008

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