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	Red Grooms — dac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Red Grooms is an artist for whom the term â€œmulti-mediaâ€ seems to have been coined.
		Born Charles Rogers Grooms in 1937 in Nashville, Tennessee, Red (nicknamed in 1959 for his hair color) began his extensive career in the arts at an early age with an exhibition of paintings at a Nashville gallery while he was still in high school.
		In the summer of 1957, Grooms attended a Provincetown summer session with Hans Hofmann, whose work he considers to be at the top level of that great generationâ€ that includes de Kooning, Kline and Rothko.
	www.dumboartscenter.org /auction/auction_2006/Grooms.html (313 words)

	Red Grooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Red Grooms by Arthur C. Danto (Rizzoli International Publications) (Limited Collector’s Edition) Best known for his extravagant life-sized artworks of stores, subways, and city scenes, Red Grooms populates these environments with offbeat, spirited, easily identifiable characters who strike a humorous chord.
		Red Grooms so perfectly captures New York City in his art that at times we may forget it is art we are experiencing and not the city itself.
		By the time Grooms was settling in, Jim Dine and Claus Oldenburg were also scouring the streets, and even the gutters, for cast-off possessions and ephemera from which they produced collages and collage paintings, reliefs and assemblages, walk-in environments and sets for theatrical happenings.
	www.wordtrade.com /arts/redgroomsR.htm (2505 words)

	Red Grooms -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Grooms was born in (additional info and facts about Nashville, Tennessee) Nashville, Tennessee during the middle of the (The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s) Great Depression.
		Besides painting and sculpture, Grooms is also know for his prolific (Artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens) printmaking.
		In 2003, Grooms was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the (additional info and facts about National Academy of Design) National Academy of Design.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/re/red_grooms.htm (347 words)

	RED GROOMS and "Ruckus Manhattan" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Grooms is a prolific, contemporary artist whose work appeals to a broad spectrum of the public, according to exhibit curator Susan Knowles.
		Knestrick, a boyhood classmate of Grooms who has collected the artist's prints over the years, introduces the reader to Red Grooms and tells of his 50-year friendship with the artist from their early artistic experiments in Nashville to their collaboration on this assembly of Red Grooms' graphic work.
		Grooms, who is naturally modest and even perhaps a bit shy, claims always to have been a bit of a ham and a prankster.
	wesingfire.tripod.com /maryclairewellinger/id86.html (4806 words)

	Town Topics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		GERTRUDE GROOMED: A rose is a rose is a Red Grooms cut-out color lithograph of the author Gertrude Stein, by way of Picasso's famous portrait.
		Grooms interiors and exteriors are packed to bursting with a chaos of matter, familiar objects stretched into funny shapes suggestive at times of Dr. Seuss, or Walt Disney on a bender.
		The perfect Grooms subject, however, is in another room in the person of Chuck Berry, whose nutty, low-moving, leg-kicking playing style is worthy of a place in Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks and must have had Grooms thinking "There goes one of my people!" But then no one is immune to being Groomed.
	www.towntopics.com /dec1504/art.html (1262 words)

	Grooms, Red on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nashville, Tenn. Grooms was one of the earliest practitioners of the happening.
		Groom's first-graders make progress as the school year unfolds, until one day their world is rattled.
		Groom's last first grade class A look at a veteran teacher's final year on the job at a small Catholic school in Freeburg.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/g/grooms-r1.asp (496 words)

	Red Grooms: Selections from the Graphic Work
		Grooms is a prolific contemporary artist, perhaps best known for his "sculpto-pictoramas," large-scale environmental art constructed with hardware store supplies.
		Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937 and began his artistic experimentation while attending public school.
		Grooms' filmmaking is characterized by a lively blend of costumes and props and various kinds of visual distortions and animation.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/4aa/4aa586.htm (853 words)

	Sculpture.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Red Grooms, Henry Moore In A Sheep Meadow, 1992, polystyrene resin and aluminum, 94" x 138" x 92", Courtesy of Marlborough Gallery, Inc., NY, on exhibition at Grounds for Sculpture.
		Red Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937.
		Students explore Red Grooms and his work to determine how an artist is influenced by culture and, conversely, how an artist can impact culture.
	www.sculpture.org:16080 /documents/curriculm/grooms.shtml (364 words)

	Red Grooms: It’s the city that makes the language
		Red is also a Downtown New York American ne plus ultra, by way of Nashville, Tennessee, where Charles Rogers Grooms was born June 7, 1937, at the height of the Depression.
		Red’s wife — “and chief advisor” — is Lysiane Luong, a painter and sculptor in her own right.
		Grooms is of that generation that exploded in New York in the late 1950s: Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Dine, Kaprow.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_54/redgroomsitsthecity.html (1530 words)

	Zeitblog: Red Grooms at the Nassau County Art Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Red Grooms' art, as usual, is a visual feast....
		We went to the last day of the "Ruckus in Roslyn" a Red Grooms exhibition at the Nassau County Art Museum Sunday.
		Nevertheless, Red Grooms' art, as usual, is a visual feast....
	zeitblog.zeitgeist.com /archives/2006/02/red_grooms_at_the_nassau_count.html (219 words)

	Red Grooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In Grooms’ accustomed brightly painted style, the vendor works under an enormous umbrella serving up street treats to two customers from his cart while a dog sneaks his own meal pulling a string of uncooked “dogs” for himself.
		Grooms’ keen powers of observation have long served to maintain for him a unique place in American art as his stories unfold laced with humor, invention, and unparalleled skills.
		In Weegee 1940, Grooms applies the title in large, raised letters with a nod to the Cubists, but the letters are painted into the pictorial program serving more like a subconscious identification of the artist’s source of inspiration.
	www.marlboroughgallery.com /ARCHIVE_PAGES_n_JPGS/Grooms_pages/Grooms_press.html (614 words)

	Plains Art Museum: Exhibitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Red Grooms is considered one of the best-known American artists working today, and this vibrant exhibition highlights forty years of the artist's extraordinarily vibrant printmaking.
		Grooms is probably the only artist whose works have managed to successfully bridge the gap between modernism and post-modernism; he has been a 1950s beat era performance artist, a knowing commentator on popular culture, and a reverential re-inventor of the history of art.
		This is the private side of Red Grooms, which shows him to be a perfectionist who has experimented with all facets of printmaking and worked with master printers both in the U.S. and abroad.
	www.plainsart.org /exhibits/red.grooms.shtml (328 words)

	Red Grooms' bus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Red Grooms' busload of colorful characters is on view at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art through March 17.
		The bus, by sculptor Red Grooms, will depart soon after March 17 after idling in the Johnson Museum's main gallery since Dec. 7.
		Grooms, who believes that all invention is play, has built a three-dimensional bus that looks like a child's bright-colored drawing come to life.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/02/3.7.02/bus.html (366 words)

	Red Grooms Biography / Biography of Red Grooms Biography
		Red Grooms (born 1937) was an American artist best known for his large scale, intensely colored, environmental sculptural pieces made of wire, acrylic, and fabric.
		Red Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in June 1937.
		Grooms began exhibiting at the Sun Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1958.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-red-grooms (250 words)

	Shark's Ink. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Red Grooms is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, and showman par excellence.
		Red Grooms and Master printer Bud Shark began their many print collaborations in 1981 with "Mountaintime", followed in 1982 by their first three-dimensional lithograph, "Ruckus Taxi".
		Red Grooms' work is exhibited widely in the United States, Europe and Japan.
	www.sharksink.com /artists.asp?artists=2 (279 words)

	Antiques and the Arts Online
		Grooms introduced the theme of the city in 1962 with his first commissioned print, "Self-Portrait in a Crowd." The image of a jaunty, striding figure wearing a stovepipe hat on a busy street signals the artist's confidence in his quickly rising career.
		Although he respects such artistic "heroes," Grooms is not afraid to have a little fun at their expense, as seen in "Nineteenth Century Artists," 1976, a series in which he spoofs the fathers of modern art from Realist Gustave Courbet to Post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne.
		Elsewhere, Grooms simulates the styles and subjects associated with earlier artists, such as Paul Gauguin's roughly carved woodcuts of the South Seas, Edward Hopper's light-filled New England beach scenes and the tall, thin figures of Alberto Giacometti.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /GH-2004-06-01-12-36-41p1 (726 words)

	Nassau County Museum of Art
		Red Grooms is a singular artist, one who is widely treasured for colorful large-scale three-dimensional assemblages and painted installations that reveal boundless good-natured satire and a wryly whimsical pop style that always brings smiles to the faces of viewers.
		In Red Grooms: Ruckus in Roslyn, curators Constance Schwartz and Franklin Hill Perrell have worked closely with the artist, his gallery, Marlborough, and private collectors to gather examples of Grooms' best-known themes, especially that of the gritty reality of New York City.
		Grooms’ work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at major museums and is included in many private and public collections, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Arts, Museum of Modern Art, National Academy of Design among many other important art institutions in this country and abroad.
	www.nassaumuseum.com /currentexhibit.htm (447 words)

	Exhibition archive - The Human Comedy - Norton Museum of Art - West Palm Beach Florida
		In reconciling the sophistication of high art with the naiveté of folk art and the humor of the cartoonist, Red Grooms has helped redefine the concept of portraiture at the end of the 20th century.
		Born Charles Rogers Grooms in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937, Red Groom's involvement with art and theatre began at a young age.
		Admission to the special exhibition Red Grooms is $10 for adults and $4 for ages 13-21.
	www.norton.org /exhibitions/archivegrooms.htm (1229 words)

	James A. Michener Art Museum: Press Room
		The James A. Michener Art Museum is proud to announce an exhibition of the largest collection of Red Grooms prints ever collectively assembled, to be displayed in the Museum's Wachovia Gallery in Doylestown from October 2, 2004-January 2, 2005.
		Grooms is a prolific contemporary artist, perhaps best known for his "sculpto-pictoramas," large-scale environmental art constructed with hardware store supplies.
		Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937 and began his artistic experimentation while attending public school.
	www.michenerartmuseum.org /press?item=2004-08-31 (876 words)

	USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education): The Human Comedy: Portraits by Red Grooms - Museums - Critical ...
		In reconciling the sophistication of high art with the naivete of folk art and the humor of the cartoonist, Red Grooms helped redefine the concept of portraiture at the end of the 20th century.
		Ironically, it is through wit and an impassioned emotional approach that Grooms has restored portraiture to a level of importance that had been lost during the height of American abstraction from the 1940s to the 1960s.
		Born Charles Rogers Grooms in Nashville, Tenn., in 1937, Grooms' involvement with art and theater began at a young age.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2699_132/ai_106473715 (624 words)

	Arts & Activities: Learning from exhibitions: Red Grooms: selections from the graphic work - Cover Story - Brief ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Red Grooms truly is a most imaginative artist, technician and observer of life.
		Grooms' keen powers of observation have long served to maintain for him a distinctive place in American art as his stories unfold laced with humor, invention and unparalleled skills.
		The exhibition Red Grooms: Selections from the Graphic Work, organized by the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, showcases more than 40 years of printmaking by one of the best-known American artists working today.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HTZ/is_5_131/ai_87416578 (972 words)

	Good-humored vision of life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is considered that through humor, wit and an impassioned emotional approach Grooms has restored portraiture to a level of importance that had been lost during the height of American abstraction from the 1940s to the 1960s.
		Grooms moved to New York in 1957 after studying at the Art Institute of Chicago and in Provincetown with Hans Hoffman.
		Grooms is known as a skilled storyteller, incorporating details and attributes into his portraits that bring his sitters to life to reveal more than just their physical characteristics.
	www.northcountynews.com /archives_2003/1-15-03/1-15-03lifestyles1.htm (1055 words)

	Hofstra Museum, Permanent Collection, Red Grooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Red Grooms briefly attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1955), the New School for Social Research in New York (1956), the George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee (1957) and the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts, New York (1957).
		By the 1960s, Grooms was creating the lively, mixed-media self-named Â“sculpto-pictoramas,Â” and installations for which he became known.
		GroomsÂ’ urban landscapes captured the vibrant and often chaotic energy of city life.
	www.hofstra.edu /COM/Museum/Museum_collection_83_35.cfm (272 words)

	Red Grooms's Ruckus Rodeo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		One of the most popular works of art in the Modern’s collection, Ruckus Rodeo by New York artist Red Grooms, will be installed in the Museum’s new building for the first time, coinciding with the 2005 Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show.
		Grooms was one of eleven artists invited to create a work for this show.
		Grooms returned to his studio in New York to fabricate the work’s major figures.
	accessarts.org /artman/publish/printer_497.shtml (485 words)

	Red Grooms
		The good-humored satire, art-historical allusions, and over-active imagination for which Red Grooms is famous are in plentiful supply in Picasso Goes to Heaven.
		Grooms is known for his large scale three-dimensional assemblages and painted installations such as Ruckus Manhattan, a mixed-media, walk-through, polychrome sculpture of city landmarks, and Ruckus Chicago, a giant mockery of that city shown at the 1968 Venice Biennale.
		Born in Nashville [and nicknamed "Red" because of his carrot-colored hair and penchant for red clothes], Grooms studied at the Chicago Art Institute, which he found too academic.
	www.wfu.edu /academics/art/ac_grooms_picasso.htm (180 words)

	Gibbes Museum of Art 2 - October 2003
		A draftsman, painter, sculpture and printmaker, Grooms draws upon his love of theatre and his skill as a storyteller to produce vibrant works that jump off the wall.
		The Human Comedy: Portraits by Red Grooms highlights the satirical wit, humor, and impassioned, emotional approach to portraiture that distinguishes Grooms from many of his American contemporaries who were more engaged by abstraction and photography.
		Although Grooms has not yet received the accolades reserved for artists that spearhead movements, The Human Comedy: Portraits by Red Grooms demonstrates that the artist has developed a style of social commentary that is highly original and important.
	www.carolinaarts.com /1003gibbes2.html (743 words)

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