Red Grooms Lithograph Print 1971. Nervous City Street Scene Signed. 26/120.

Nervous City Street Scene by Red Grooms. Lithograph 26/120. Artist: Red Grooms Date: 1971 Edition of 120 Lithograph, 26/120 Signed in pencil, signature, l.r. Dimensions - composition and sheet: 22 3/16 x 30 1/16" (56.3 x 76.3 cm) Sold Unframed Nervous City Street Scene ft. in MOMA: Ten Lithographs by Ten Artists "Nervous City Street Scene” Collected by a major museum - Museum of Modern Art - MOMA Grooms taught at Skowhegan in 1969 and shortly there after contributed "Nervous City" Litho to the scholarship portfolio project. Represented by internationally recognized Blue-chip galleries. Since the 1970s, Red Grooms has used cartoonish imagery to satirize city life, most notably in crowd-pleasing, large-scale sculptures and public installations. He found acclaim in 1975 with Ruckus Manhattan, a caricatured, three-dimensional recreation of New York City. The interactive installation features iconic landmarks populated by life-sized wooden figures of sex workers, thieves, gamblers, tourists, shoppers, and families who altogether suggest the city’s grit and glamour. Grooms has also channeled his signature sense of satire, kitsch, and Americana into mixed-media paintings, drawings, prints, and performances. Rather than shying away from the disturbing details of urban life, Grooms paints them in their near-psychedelic glory. The work’s garish display of debauchery and anxiety is an unflinching look at the reality of contemporary New York City. Red Grooms elicits the nervous energy of trying to safely navigate the wild streets of Manhattan. My step father gifted me this amazing gritty print. One of my favorites from his crazy art collection. it sold n 2011 for 1560$ (see pic) Nervous City Street Scene from Ten Lithographs by Ten Artists Date: 1971 Edition of 120 Lithograph, 26/120 Signed in pencil, l.r. Sold Unframed Dimensions - composition and sheet: 22 3/16 x 30 1/16" (56.3 x 76.3 cm) Publisher - Shorewood-Bank Street Atelier for the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Printer - Bank Street Atelier, New York Red Grooms moved to New York in 1959 and has been working out of the same studio in TriBeCa since 1969, way before the neighborhood got its trendy name and just in time to live through the hardscrabble ‘70s. Grooms looked to a city, filled with violence, anger, and crime as an endless source of inspiration for his artworks. While some works are lighthearted vignettes of the hustle and bustle, other works capture the crime and corruption that could be found in the city. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the New School, and the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts, pursuing set design before turning his focus to fine art. Grooms has enjoyed solo shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth among other institutions. His work belongs in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Moderna Museet.