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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Colorado, 1982

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Colorado, 1982

Sale Date: November 14, 2008

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Red's Roxy, 1985

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Red's Roxy, 1985

Sale Date: November 3, 2008

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Picasso and Fernande Olivier visiting the..., 1973

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Picasso and Fernande Olivier visiting the..., 1973

Sale Date: November 12, 2008

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Apollinaire, 1963

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Apollinaire, 1963

Sale Date: November 12, 2008

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Charlie Chaplin, 1986

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Charlie Chaplin, 1986

Sale Date: November 2, 2008

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Charlie Chaplin, 1985

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Charlie Chaplin, 1985

Sale Date: November 2, 2008

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Ruckus taxi, 1982

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Ruckus taxi, 1982

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

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Truck II, 1979

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Truck II, 1979

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

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Nervous city (from Ten Lithographs by Ten..., 1971

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Nervous city (from Ten Lithographs by Ten..., 1971

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

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Little Italy, 1989

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Little Italy, 1989

Sale Date: October 29, 2008

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Sale Date: October 8, 2008

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Museum, 1978

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Museum, 1978

Sale Date: September 12, 2008

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City builder, 1962–1996

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City builder, 1962–1996

Sale Date: September 9, 2008

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Taxi pretzel (from No Gas), 1971

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Taxi pretzel (from No Gas), 1971

Sale Date: July 31, 2008

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Woman Portrait, 1955

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Woman Portrait, 1955

Sale Date: July 1, 2008

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Portrait of Thomas Sterns, 1967

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Portrait of Thomas Sterns, 1967

Sale Date: June 30, 2008

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John Powers, 1964

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John Powers, 1964

Sale Date: June 30, 2008

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Discount store

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Discount store

Sale Date: May 7, 2008

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Muscle beach relief

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Muscle beach relief

Sale Date: May 9, 2008

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Mango mango, gangster and moll, 1973

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Mango mango, gangster and moll, 1973

Sale Date: May 18, 2008

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Looking up Broadway, again!, 1994

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Looking up Broadway, again!, 1994

Sale Date: May 20, 2008

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Chuck Berry, 1978

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Chuck Berry, 1978

Sale Date: May 20, 2008

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Red's proxy, 1985

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Red's proxy, 1985

Sale Date: April 30, 2008

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Red's Roxy, 1985

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Red's Roxy, 1985

Sale Date: April 30, 2008

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