Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Grooms, Red |
Title |
The Flatiron Building |
Medium |
color etching and lithograph on paper, edition of 75 |
Date |
1995 |
Description |
Red Grooms (Nashville 1937; lives and works in New York) The Flatiron Building, 1995 Color etching and lithograph on paper, edition of 75 34 x 16 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 1997 gift of Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms) is a painter, sculptor, and performance artist known for his cartoon like images and for his "sculpto-pictoramas" which are exuberant 3 dimensional environments. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The New School of Social Research, NY, and the Hans Hofmann School, Cape Cod, MA. During the 1950s and 1960s Grooms participated in "happenings" with other New York artists Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, and Jim Dine, setting the stage for his interest in theatrical sets and performance art. Grooms often depicts popular culture. Here, he images New York City's famous Flatiron Building on 23rd street at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, named for its shape. |
Catalog Number |
1997.04.01 |
Search Terms |
Etchings Lithographs Mixed media works Prints Paper |
Credit line |
Gift of Marlborough Gallery, New York |