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Red Grooms
Born Nashville, TN 1937
Red Bud Diner, 1994
Color lithograph on paper
24 Ã- 62 ½ inches
Printer's Proof 5/5
Publisher: Shark's Ink, Lyons, CO

Value: $6,250

Red Grooms is best known for extending pop art into life-size environmental constructions. A Texas rodeo, a slice of downtown Chicago, and a New York subway car are among his large-scale "sculpto-pictoramas," peopled with cartoon-like characters. Born Charles Rogers Grooms in Nashville, Tennessee, the red-headed artist Red Grooms attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the New School for Social Research, and the Hans Hofmann School on Cape Cod.

His work can be found in over 40 public institutions, including: the Asheville Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Nagoya City Art Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Moderna Museet; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.