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Larry Rivers (born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg) (1923 – 2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor.[1] Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was one of the first artists to merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction.[1][3]

Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers in 1961
Born	Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg (1923-08-17)August 17, 1923 Bronx, New York, U.S.
Died	August 14, 2002(2002-08-14) (aged 78) Southampton, New York, U.S.[1]
Nationality	American
Education	Hans Hofmann School
Known for	Painting, sculpture
Movement	East Coast figurative painting, new realism, pop art
Spouses	Augusta Berger ​ ​ (m. 1945; div. 1946)​ [2] Clarice Price ​ ​ (m. 1961; sep. 1967)​

Career

Larry Rivers was born as Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg in the Bronx, New York in the family of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.[4] Rivers took up painting in 1945 and studied at the Hans Hofmann School from 1947–48.[5] He earned a BA in art education from New York University in 1951.[5]

His work was quickly acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. A 1953 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware was damaged in fire at the museum five years later.[6]

He was a pop artist of the New York School, reproducing everyday objects of American popular culture as art. He was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery in 1955.

During the early 1960s Rivers lived in the Hotel Chelsea, notable for its artistic residents such as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Arthur C. Clarke, Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious and multiple people associated with Andy Warhol's Factory and where he brought several of his French nouveau réalistes friends like Yves Klein who wrote there in April 1961 his Manifeste de l'hôtel Chelsea, Arman, Martial Raysse, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Christo, Daniel Spoerri or Alain Jacquet, several of whom, like Rivers, left some pieces of art in the lobby of the hotel for payment of their rooms. In 1965, Rivers had his first comprehensive retrospective in five important American museums. ^{[citation needed]}

His final work for the exhibition was The History of the Russian Revolution, which was later on extended permanent display at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. He spent 1967 in London collaborating with the American painter Howard Kanovitz.^{[citation needed]}

In 1968, Rivers traveled to Africa for a second time with Pierre Dominique Gaisseau to finish their documentary Africa and I, which was a part of the groundbreaking NBC series Experiments in Television. During this trip they narrowly escaped execution as suspected mercenaries. ^{[citation needed]}

During the 1970s, Rivers worked closely with Diana Molinari and Michel Auder on many video tape projects, including the infamous Tits, and also worked in neon.[7]

Rivers's legs appeared in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1971 film Up Your Legs Forever.[8]

Music

From 1940–1945 he worked as a jazz saxophonist in New York City, changing his name to Larry Rivers in 1940 after being introduced as "Larry Rivers and the Mudcats" at a local pub.^{[citation needed]} He studied at the Juilliard School of Music in 1945–46, along with Miles Davis, with whom he remained friends until Davis's death in 1991.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Larry Rivers was born in the Bronx to Samuel and Sonya Grossberg, Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.[5]

In 1945, he married Augusta Berger, and they had one son, Steven.[1] Rivers also adopted Berger's son from a previous relationship, Joseph, and reared both children after the couple divorced.[1]

In 1961, he married Clarice Price, a Welsh school teacher who cared for his two sons.[9] The relationship lasted six years before the two separated.^{[citation needed]} In their time together, however, the pair had two daughters, Gwynne and Emma.^{[citation needed]}

Shortly after, he lived and collaborated with Diana Molinari, who featured in many of his works of the 1970s.^{[citation needed]}

Rivers then lived with Sheila Lanham, a Baltimore artist and poet.^{[citation needed]}

In the early 1980s, Rivers and East Village figurative painter Daria Deshuk lived together and in 1985 they had a son, Sam Deshuk Rivers (now Sam D. Rivers).^{[citation needed]}

Rivers also maintained a relationship with poet Frank O'Hara in the late 1950s and delivered the eulogy at O'Hara's funeral in 1966.^{[citation needed]}

Throughout his career, Rivers maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, Long Island, and Zihuatanejo, Mexico.^{[citation needed]}

Rivers died in 2002, leaving behind his five children and then companion poet Jeni Olin.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

His primary gallery being the Marlborough Gallery in New York City. In 2002 a major retrospective of Rivers' work was held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. New York University bought correspondences and other documents from the Larry Rivers Foundation to house in their archive.[10] However, his daughters Gwynne and Emma objected to one particular film being displayed, as it depicts them naked as young children.^{[citation needed]} The film's purpose is supposedly to be a documentation on their growth through puberty, but it was made without their consent.^{[citation needed]} The matter was addressed in the December 2010 issue of the magazine Vanity Fair, and the October 2010 issue of Grazia.^{[citation needed]} The film will never be publicly displayed as requested by both children. ^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Bodley Gallery
• LGBT culture in New York City
• List of LGBT people from New York City

References

Further reading

• Baskind, Samantha, Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America,Philadelphia, PA, Penn State University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-271-05983-9
• Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6. p. 8; p. 32; p. 38; p. 310–313

External links

• 101 / EXHIBIT
• Marlborough Gallery
• Frank O'Hara — Rainbow Warrior

На других языках

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[de] Larry Rivers

Larry Rivers (* als Yitzhok Loiza Grossberg am 17. August 1923 in New York City; † 14. August 2002 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Musiker und Künstler. Er gilt als einer der Gründerväter der Pop Art.

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- [en] Larry Rivers

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[es] Larry Rivers

Larry Rivers (17 de agosto de 1923 - 14 de agosto de 2002) fue un artista, pintor, escultor, músico y cineasta estadounidense.

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[fr] Larry Rivers

Larry Rivers, né Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg le 17 août 1923 dans le Bronx et mort le 14 août 2002, est un peintre, sculpteur, musicien et réalisateur américain. En 1991 et 1992, il a collaboré à la série des tableaux éclatés de Niki de Saint Phalle, en particulier à ceux dédiés en hommage à Jean Tinguely : Jean I, Jean II, Jean III[1].

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[ru] Риверс, Ларри

Ларри Риверс (наст. имя Ицхок Лойза Гроссберг, англ. Larry Rivers; 17 августа 1923, Бронкс, Нью-Йорк — 14 августа 2002, Нью-Йорк) — американский художник, музыкант и скульптор, один из предтеч поп-арта.

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