Red Grooms, born in Nashville in 1937, is an American Pop artist, widely recognized as a leading exponent of HAPPENINGS.
Grooms was trained at the New School for Social Research, the Chicago Art Institute School and the Hans Hofmann School, Provincetown. His initial acclaim came in 1959, when he staged a Happening in New York entitled The House That Burns, a mixture of Disneyland, vaudeville and Punch and Judy show situated somewhere between nostalgic melodrama and impassioned protest.
As an artist, he also collaborated with Claes Oldenburg. In 1966, he was represented at the Venice Biennale. Art by this POP artist, can be found at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. among many other museums worldwide.
Grooms, Red
1984 Oil on Wood Signed 16 x 16 in SOLD1984 3-D offset-lithographic cut-out paper sculpture construction and Lucite box 17 ¼ x 20 ½ x 17 ½ in (43.8 x 52 x 44.5 cm) From the unsigned edition SOLD1984 Woodcut Signed and numbered 77 x 42 in Edition of 15 SOLD1979 Lithograph and collage printed on two sheets (diptych) Signed and numbered 24 ¼ x 22 in (each sheet) Edition of 19 SOLD1990 Lithograph with 3-D construction in plexi-case Signed and numbered 24 ½ x 35 x 22 ¾ in Edition of 90 SOLD1997 Lithograph with 3-D construction in plexi-case Signed and numbered 22 ½ x 23 x 13 ½ in Edition of 75 SOLD1985 Three-dimensional lithographic sculpture in colors with crank-operated Mylar filmstrip on paper in Plexiglas box Signed in pencil, and numbered 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (20.8 x 16.4 x 29.7 cm). Edition of 200 (Knestrick, 104) SOLD1982 Lithograph in 3-dimensions in plexi-case Signed and numbered 16 x 28 ¼ x 14 inches Edition of 75 SOLD1983 Screenprint and collage Signed and numbered 26 x 33 in Edition of 200 SOLD1986 Blue in on paper Signed in blue ink 3 1/2 x 8 in. (8.9 x 20.3 cm), unframed Unique drawing on paper SOLD1979 Lithograph Signed and numbered 24 ½ x 61 ¾ inches (62.2 x 157 cm) Edition of 36 SOLDGrooms was trained at the New School for Social Research, the Chicago Art Institute School and the Hans Hofmann School, Provincetown. His initial acclaim came in 1959, when he staged a Happening in New York entitled The House That Burns, a mixture of Disneyland, vaudeville and Punch and Judy show situated somewhere between nostalgic melodrama and impassioned protest.
As an artist, he also collaborated with Claes Oldenburg. In 1966, he was represented at the Venice Biennale. Art by this POP artist, can be found at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. among many other museums worldwide.