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Larry Rivers (a.k.a.Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg) American (New York City, 1923 - 2002, Southampton, New York) View objects by this artist.

(http://www.artnet.com     10-13-08)
1923    Born: Bronx, NY (Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg: August 17)  
1940    Changes name to Larry Rivers; begins career as a jazz saxophonist  
1942 - 1944    Serves in U.S. Army Air Corps.; medical discharge, 1943; attend Julliard School of Music, New York  

1945 - 1948    Commences painting in Maine; moves to Manhattan; studies painting at Abstract Expressionist, Hans Hofmann’s, school in New York and Provincetown, MA, 1947-1948; studies with Abstract Expressionist William Baziotes at New York University (B.A., 1951); meets Willem de Kooning  

1949    First solo exhibition at Jane Street Gallery, New York  

1950    Lives in Paris for eight months; returns to New York to paint full-time  

1951    Solo exhibition at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, will exhibit annually (except 1955) through 1962; starts plaster sculpting; meets Jackson Pollock  

1952 - 1953    Designs set for poet and Museum of Modern Art curator, Frank O’Hara’s, play; moves to Southampton, New York  

1954 - 1956    One-man sculpture show at Stable Gallery, New York; Gloria Vanderbilt Foundation and Museum of Modern Art purchase Rivers, first in a museum collection; group exhibition at Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; participates in Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil  

1957 - 1960    Works with O’Hara on lithograph series and poet, Kenneth Koch, on painting-poems; starts welded metal sculpting; travels to Paris  

1961 - 1963    Sets up studio in Paris; works with Kinetic artist, Jean Tinguely, joint project exhibited at Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; Tate Gallery, London, buys a Rivers; solo exhibitions at Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, and Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles; European solo exhibitions at Gimpel Fils, London, and Galerie Rive Droite, Paris; commissioned to design New York Film Festival Billboard  

1965    First retrospective at Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA, travels to Pasadena Art Museum, CA, The Detroit Institute of the Arts, and others  

1966 - 1969    New England Merchants National Bank of Boston and Smithhaven Mall, New York, commission murals; designs set for Igor Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex; collaborates with French filmmaker, Pierre Gaisseau; travels in Europe and North Africa; group exhibition at Museum of Modern Art; starts using spray cans  

1970    De Menil Foundation, Houston, TX, commissions a Rivers, highest price for a commissioned work to date; solo exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago; first of many one-man shows at Marlborough Gallery, New York, will exhibit at gallery until 1999; begins experimenting with airbrush, acrylic paint, and videotape  

1971 - 1975    Travels to West Coast and teaches at University of California, Santa Barbara; collaborates with Kenneth Koch on video segments that are shown at Whitney Museum, New York; travels to Africa and collaborates on film with photographer Peter Beard; solo exhibition at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; group exhibition at Swedish Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm  

1976 - 1978    Hirshhorn Museum buys a Rivers; Union of Soviet Artists invites to Russia to give lecture series; solo exhibitions at Gimpel Fils, London, ACA Galleries, New York, and Robert Miller Gallery, New York; starts using color carbon  

1980 - 1982    Retrospective at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela; traveling European retrospective organized by Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany; solo exhibitions at F.I.C.A., Paris, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, and Studio Marconi, Milan; moves in with Russian painter Daria Deshuk  

1983 - 1985    Retrospective organized by Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, travels to Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida; J.C. Penney, Philadelphia, commissions mural; New York solo exhibitions at The Jewish Museum and Kouros Gallery; one-man shows at Elaine Horwich Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, and Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Tokyo  

1986 - 1988    Designs cover for The New York Times Magazine; BBC commissions a computer art project to be shown on U.S. television; Philadelphia Historical Society commissions a print; work featured in Artforum; solo exhibitions at Adelphi University Center, New Jersey, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, Simms Fine Art, New Orleans, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, and Heland-Thorden-Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden  

1990    Group exhibition at Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York  

1999    Final exhibition at Marlborough Gallery  

2002    Dies August 16, at home in Southampton; retrospective at Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.  

    This American artist was born in New York City, in 1923, as Yitzroch Loisa Grossberg. He began his artistic career as a jazz saxophonist and changed his name to Larry Rivers. He turned to visual art in the 1940s. Responding to the Abstract Expressionists, Rivers explored figurative work as evidenced in a series of nude studies from 1954. He was an excellent draftsman inclined towards the culturally provocative. He was one of the first artists to include popular images in his paintings placing him at the forefront of the Pop Art movement. At the height of his career, the 1960s, he continued to paint the figure, often including elements of stenciled lettering and photography. His artistic contributions are marked by clever irony with subject matter, ranging from the erotic to social concerns, and are not confined to fine art alone. Rivers is also recognized as a stage set designer, musician, documentary filmmaker and University of California at Santa Barbara professor. The artist died in 2002.  

  
Selected Exhibitions  
    
  2007   Wit and Whimsy, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY March 6 - 31  
  2007   Sobre el Humor, Galeriá Marlborough, Madrid, Spain, June 28 - September  
  2006   Summer Show, Marlborough Graphics, New York, NY  
  2006   Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, June 22 - September 5  
  2005   Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY (solo)  
  2005   Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo)  
  2005   Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York  
  2004   Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection: From Renoir to Warhol, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2004  
  2002   The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo)  
  2001   Fashion Show, Lord and Taylor, NY and Marlborough Monte-Carlo (solo)  
  2000   On Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY  
  2000   Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, NY and Marlborough Monte-Carlo  
  1999   Larry Rivers - Pastels, Manolo Valdés - Paintings, Fondation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium  
  1999   In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California  
  1999   Fashion Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo)  
  1998   Forma y Figuración: obras maestras de la colección Blake-Purnell, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain  
  1998   Coming Off the Wall, The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  
  1997   Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo)  
  1994   Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo)  
  1993   Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain (solo)  
  1992   Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY (solo)  
  1991   Galería Antonio Machón, Madrid, Spain (solo)  
  1990   Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France (solo)  
  1988   Spoleto Festival U.S.A., Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC (solo)  
  1987   Simms Fine Art, New Orleans, LA (solo)  
  1986   Adelphi University Center, Garden City, NY (solo)  
  1985   Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (solo)  
  1984   Kouros Gallery, New York, NY (solo)  
  1983   Elaine Horwich Gallery, Phoenix, AZ (solo)  
  1982   Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy (solo)  
  1981   Galerie Biedermann Munich, Germany (solo)  
  1979   Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo)  
  1977   Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)  


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