On View
Not on viewObject number2009.56
Drawing Announcement
Artist
Larry Rivers
(American, 1923-2002)
Date1966
Mediumlithograph with stencil-sprayed additions
Dimensionsimage: 11 × 16 1/2 in. (27.9 × 41.9 cm)
sheet: 19 1/2 × 24 1/2 in. (49.5 × 62.2 cm)
sheet: 19 1/2 × 24 1/2 in. (49.5 × 62.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).
Label TextLarry Rivers shares some stylistic affinities with Abstract Expressionists and Pop Artists. Along with Rauschenberg, Rivers pioneered inclusion of everyday objects in collage-like works, a practice that Pop Artists would intensify. At the height of abstraction’s reign in New York, Rivers caused a stir by re-introducing the human figure into his work.
