Red Grooms is an artist for whom the term “multi-media” seems to have been coined.
Three-dimensional color lithograph and screenprint on Arches with mylar, cut outs, and retractable window shade with string, glued and assembled in a Plexiglas box, 1981. 1080x770 mm; 42 1/8x30 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed and dated in red pencil, lower right. Also H.C signature
"At times Grooms's humor has an absurdist streak, full of the impetuous energy and preposterous puns of the Marx Bro ...click for details
Emil John Hess (American, b. 1913-d. 2003)painted this wonderful Modernist pen, ink & watercolor mixed media depiction of a horse race. Well known for genre scenes of New York City, where he lived and worked primarily, Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey circus, off track betting parlors, famous race horses and modern metal sculpture. Hess studied at Duquesne University 1938-1939, Art Institute of Pittburgh 1946-1949, Brooklyn Museum Art School 1950-1951, and New York University 1959 ...click for details