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Screen print in colors on Arches paper. Hand signed lower right by Red Grooms. Hand numbered 120/150 lower left. Image size: 24 x 18 inches. Sheet size: 31.5 x 25 inches. Frame Size: 32.5 x 26 inches. Printed by Chromacomp, Inc., NY. Published by G.H.J Graphics, NY. Reference: Fig. no. 70 in “Red Grooms: The Graphic Work” published by Harry Abrams, Inc 2001.

Artwork appears to be in excellent condition. Artwork has not been examined outside the frame. Being previously owned, frame molding has some random scratches and dents. Plexiglass covering has no scratches or marks. Certificate of Authenticity included.

About the Artist: 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 Katz, Jim 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.

Red Grooms

Charles Rogers Grooms, known as Red Grooms, is an American-born contemporary artist. He works in a diverse range of mediums, including print, paint, sculpture and film. He is most associated with pop and modern art and has invited comparisons with such luminaries of the artistic canon as William Hogarth and Marcel Duchamp. This is due to the representations of human society and humour that is present in his work. This ranges from early works such as 1967’s ‘William Penn Shaking Hands With The Indians’ to mature creations like 1998’s ‘Tennessee Foxtrot Carousel’. His work in film includes starring in the biopic ‘Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse’ and ‘Secret of Wendel Samson’, in which he played the role of Wendel. Grooms was born in rural Tennessee in the southern United States in 1937. This was the height of the great depression and these lowly beginnings influenced his art for years to come. He studied his craft at the Art Institute of Chicago and the New School in NYC. Still working at the age of 80, he resides in New York City, in his studio in lower Manhattan, his home for the last four decades. His work has been shown around the world, including in the US, Japan and Europe.