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Birth
1923 (New York City)
Death
2002 (Southampton, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
Photograph of Larry Rivers, 1956
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Often Known For
modernist pop figure, word image genre painting
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Modernism
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artist Larry Rivers was born in the Bronx in 1923 to Ukrainian Jewish
parents, and was named Yitzak Loiza Grossberg. Rivers belonged to the
second generation of the New York School* of painters, although unlike most of his
contemporaries he stayed away from abstraction instead preferring
narrative paintings. He began his artistic career playing the jazz
saxophone, and when one night his group was introduced as "Larry Rivers
and the Mudcats," he decided to keep the (showing 500 of 24117 characters). |
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