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Looking Along Broadway Towards Grace Church

1981

Red Grooms

(American, b. 1937)
Culture
America
Medium
mixed media (alkyd paint, gatorboard, celastic, wood, wax, foam-core)
Measurements
Overall: 180.3 x 161.9 x 73 cm (71 x 63 3/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Edward Henning 1991.27
Copyright
© Red Grooms, Member of Artists Rights Society (ARS)
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
000 Education Gallery
Print
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Did You Know?

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.
Mixed media sculpture looking down a cartoon-like rendered bustling New York street. A yellow cab, bus, and red car flanked by people on sidewalks jut out front and, behind, teetering buildings narrow before meeting at a perspective-giving point. An orange car carrier and polka-dot cement truck pass each other at a streetlight in the middle-ground. Signs in puffy lettering say things such as "COFFEE" and "DAVES LUNCHEON CORNER" as they jut out from the multi-colored buildings.

Looking Along Broadway Towards Grace Church

1981

Red Grooms

(American, b. 1937)
America

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