Red Grooms

Red Grooms

American · b. 1937 · Painter, Printmaker

Red Grooms is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname… (Wikipedia)

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  1. Red Grooms, (American b.1937), mixed media collage on canvas(American b.1937)Bonhams · $19,120≈ £10,587≈ €15,251Sign up to see
  2. Red Grooms, Aspen Snowbunny, 1983, watercolor on paper constructionAspen SnowbunnyBonhams · $8,320≈ £6,674≈ €7,752Sign up to see
  3. Red Grooms, Mimi Reading, 1967, watercolor on paperMimi ReadingRago Auctions · $8,125≈ £6,131≈ €7,215Sign up to see

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Red Grooms is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann.

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Born 1937, NashvilleOccupation Painter, Printmaker, Sculptor, Draughtsman, IllustratorWikidata Q3422714 ↗ULAN 500008450 ↗

In the collections of

Cleveland Museum of ArtHunterian Museum and Art GalleryMetropolitan Museum of ArtMuseum of Modern ArtPennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsPicker Art GallerySmithsonian American Art MuseumThe Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtVanderbilt Museum of ArtWhitney Museum of American ArtYale University Art GalleryArt Institute of Chicago

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pop art

Also known as Charles Grooms, Charles Roger Grooms, Charles Rogers Grooms

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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