The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
Looking Along Broadway Towards Grace Church
1981
(American, b. 1937)
Overall: 180.3 x 161.9 x 73 cm (71 x 63 3/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
© Red Grooms, Member of Artists Rights Society (ARS)
Location: 000 Education Gallery
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This work depicts roughly 15 blocks of Lower Manhattan between Canal and 10th Streets.Description
Looking Along Broadway Towards Grace Church exemplifies the zany, cartoonlike sculptural environments of Red Grooms. Throughout his career, New York City has provided wonderfully rich subject matter for his work. In this animated scene, the artist focuses on the visual clutter of a lower Manhattan street near his studio. A three-dimensional caricature, this work features jutting buildings, garish street people, and aggressive cars, trucks, and buses, all vividly painted. With engaging wit and enormous energy Grooms captures urban life with rare good humor.- Hinson, Tom E. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 110 www.jstor.org
- Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).CMA 1991: "Notable Acquisitions," CMA Bulletin 78 (June, 1991), p. 110, repr.Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1985-86: "Red Grooms Retrospective," cat. no. 70, (also to: Denver Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Nashville, Tennessee State Museum).New York, NY, Marlborough Gallery, 1981: "Red Grooms: Recent Works," repr. cover and p. 31
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1991.27