Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Red Grooms is known for whimsical sculptural tableaux and paintings, especially with circus themes. He works with all kinds of materials including paper, plaster, wood,... Read full biography
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Red Grooms is known for whimsical sculptural tableaux and paintings, especially with circus themes. He works with all kinds of materials including paper, plaster, wood, found objects, and cardboard. About his work, he said he has "a giddy sense of reality.". He studied... Read full biography
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Red Grooms is known for whimsical sculptural tableaux and paintings, especially with circus themes. He works with all kinds of materials including paper, plaster, wood, found objects, and cardboard. About his work, he said he has "a giddy sense of reality.". He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, and the New School of Social Research in New York. In Provincetown, Massachusetts, he was a... Read full biography
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Red Grooms is known for whimsical sculptural tableaux and paintings, especially with circus themes. He works with all kinds of materials including paper, plaster, wood, found objects, and cardboard. About his work, he said he has "a giddy sense of reality.". He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, and the New School of Social Research in New York. In Provincetown, Massachusetts, he was a student of Abstract Expressionist Hans Hoffman. In New York, he was a participant in "Happenings" or performance art, along with Jim Dine, Allan Kaprow, and Claes Oldenburg. For Grooms, this activity was an outgrowth of his interest in the pageantry of the... Read full biography
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Red Grooms is known for whimsical sculptural tableaux and paintings, especially with circus themes. He works with all kinds of materials including paper, plaster, wood, found objects, and cardboard. About his work, he said he has "a giddy sense of reality.". He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, and the New School of Social Research in New York. In Provincetown, Massachusetts, he was a student of Abstract Expressionist Hans Hoffman. In New York, he was a participant in "Happenings" or performance art, along with Jim Dine, Allan Kaprow, and Claes Oldenburg. For Grooms, this activity was an outgrowth of his interest in the pageantry of the circus, something that has intrigued him throughout his life. A successful full-time artist and resident of New York City, he ha... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (83)
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Fifty Gifts for Fifty Years: Sheldon Museum of Art
2013
Veneciano, Jorge Daniel (Introduction); Sharon Kennedy, Gregory Nosan, Brandon Ruud
112 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
Western Art Masterpieces
1996
Watkins, T H/Joan P Watkins
119 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990
1995
Hansen, Trudy (others)
248 pages (color)
Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995
Severens, Martha R
289 pages (color)
From Ansel Adams To Andy Warhol
1994
Hennessey, William, G Smith
119 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art
1993
Pavese, Edith
160 pages (color)
Transforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Hough, Katherine
111 pages (color)
The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989) (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor); Andrea Ansell Bien
468 pages
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Mary & Crosby Kemper Collection Selections from Inaugural Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Kemper Gallery Kansas City AI
28 pages (color)
Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990
1991
Wexner Center, Ohio State U
310 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Word As Image American Art 1960-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel
172 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art What Thou Eat Images of Food in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Gustafson, Donna (others)
191 pages (color)
Pop Art A Continuing History
1990
Livingstone, Marco
271 pages (color)
Red Grooms Tourist Traps and Other Places (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Marlborough Gallery
46 pages (color)
Sport in Art From American Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown
128 pages (color)
Reported Sightings Art Chronicles
1989
Ashbery, John
419 pages (color)
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Art in Embasies Twenty-Five Years at the State Department
1989
Greenwood, Dougles McCreary
63 pages (color)
At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro)
140 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
American Works on Paper III (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Spanierman Gallery
150 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Watercolors
1988
Finch, Christopher
310 pages (color)
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Stich, Sidra
280 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
The Sturman Collection Twentieth-Century Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Karp, Ivan (intro)
44 pages (color)
50 New York Artists
1986
Marshall, Richard
118 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists Observed
1986
Stein, Harvey
160 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
Red Grooms A Retrospective 1956-1984 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Penn Acad of Fine Arts
240 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Cummings, Paul
144 pages
Blam, the Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Haskell, Barbara
160 pages
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
1984
Severinghaus, J Walter
333 pages (color)
The Art of New York
1983
Chwast, Seymour/S Heller
190 pages
Prints A Collector's Guide
1983
Kaplan, Ellen
253 pages
Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World
1981
Myers, John Bernard
285 pages
Inside Out Self beyond Likeness (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Newport Harbor Art Museum
103 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Realist Drawings & Watercolors Contemporary American Works on Papers
1980
Arthur, John
144 pages (color)
Urban Encounters Art, Architecture, Audience
1980
Institute of Contemporary Art
64 pages (color)
American Figure Painting 1950-198 (Exhibition catalog)