Artist: Larry Rivers (1923 - 2002)
Nationality: American
Movement: Pop Art
Media: Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Design
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Larry Rivers, 15 Years, 1965
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Larry Rivers, Garbo Grossman, 1983
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Larry Rivers, Diane Raised III, 1971
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Larry Rivers, Diane Raised I, 1970
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Larry Rivers, Molly (Girl on a Couch), 1957
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Larry Rivers, Diana With Poem, 1970 - 1974
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Larry Rivers, Diane Raised II, 1970 - 1971
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Larry Rivers, May Opening/ National Collection of Fine Art/ Smithsonian..., 1968
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Larry Rivers, Diane Raised IV (Polish Vocabulary), 1970 - 1974
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Larry Rivers, Bald Eagle George and Part of the Constitution, 1987
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Larry Rivers, Stones by Frank O"Hara (West Islip, N.Y.: U.L.A.E., 1960), 1960
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Larry Rivers, "Stones: Will We Ever Get, 1958," pg. 12, in the book Stones by Frank O"Hara (West Islip, N.Y.: U.L.A.E., 1960), 1960
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Larry Rivers, Madama Butterfly, fifth of a portfolio of eight Metropolitan Opera Fine Arts Posters, 20th century
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Larry Rivers, The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 5, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Title page, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 34, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 36, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 35, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 37, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 33, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 32, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 31, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 30, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 29, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 28, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 27, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 26, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 38, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 39, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 52, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 51, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 50, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 49, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 48, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 47, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 46, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 45, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 44, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977
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Larry Rivers, Untitled, page 43, in the book The Donkey and The Darling by Terry Southern (West Islip, NY: ULAE, 1977), 1967 - 1977

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Corcoran Gallery of Art: Larry Rivers: Art and the Artist
Often identified as a Pop pioneer in the late 1950s, Rivers has become one of most important artists in the figurative tradition. Larry Rivers’ work spans fifty years of restless exploration, consummate skill and deep insight, says Corcor...
Edinburgh Printmakers: Hilary Paynter: From the Rivers to the Sea
Inspired by the scenery of the northeast Paynter made many journeys on Tyneside’s Metro transport system. From the outset Paynter was ‘arrested by the idea of the Metro as a journey in and out of the past and the richness of historical context’, w...
Studio in the Woods (ASITW): Call for Artists: River Residencies - The Art of the River
Artists may apply for their first and second choice of 4-week residency dates either Oct. 27 - Nov. 24, 2004 or Mar. 23 - April 20, 2005. Recipients will be given $2000 for stipend and materials. The residencies will culminate in a public ...
ISIS Arts: Call for Artists: Numerous Oppertunities Posted
Isis Arts New Media Commissions 2004 Fee: £1,000 inclusive Isis Arts is seeking submissions for two new media art commissions, to be completed between May and September 2004. Artists are invited to submit proposals for web-bas...
Appleton Museum of Art: Homage to Van Gogh: International Artists Pay Tribute to a Legend
The collection was started in 1985 with the intention on fulfilling Van Gogh’s hope of forming a community of artists in Arles, France. Little evidence remains of Van Gogh’s residence in the city. None of the paintings made during Van Gogh’s “Arle...
I. Wolk Gallery: Mitchell Johnson: New Paintings
This show will feature more than 25 new pieces ranging from painterly figure compositions reminiscent of David Park and the Bay Area Figurative Tradition to bucolic scenes of Italy and California. Johnson’s particular use of color and gesture sho...
Commonwheel Artists Coop: NIKAWA: An Osage Word (literally river horse) Meaning river Travel
Inspired by the angularity of river canyon wall, artist R.E. Tolzman has created a series of raku fired vessel forms for this show. The waterways and water bodies of rivers have influenced clay artist Jean Jennings in her artistic interpreta...
Russian Realism Art League: Call for Artists: Workshops Offered this Summer in St. Petersberg
Artists will work side-by-side with painting masters who developed the traditions of Russian Realism and Impressionism. The workshops will give artists an opportunity to paint the city that, with its many rivers, canals and variety of architectura...
National Gallery: Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691)
His drawings range from intimate studies of people, animals and plants, to grand views of his native land.

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Madelyn Jordon Fine Art: Ted Larsen: Coming East
However, Larsen, a risk-taker in his professional and personal life, has "pushed the envelope" in the past year by adding two new bodies of work. Experimenting with 22-gauge steel as a medium for his paintings, he is using the material of abandone...
Columbus College of Art and Design: Edmund Kuehn: Retrospective 1937-2001
His paintings resonate with the challenges the painter faces to reconcile a three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensional surface. Kuehn's exquisite use of color and exploration of space results in art that offers aesthetic joy as well as th...
Plains Art Museum: Common Ground: The Landscapes of Kim Gordon
Gordon is a plein-air painter, taking her canvases and brushes outside to paint the landscape from life. The artist stated, "As a plein-air painter I have a constant fascination with the way the world looks, with the way light defines and erodes f...
Triton Museum of Art: New Works by California Artists: Mitchell Johnson
Mitchell Johnson is an artist who is above all, a colorist. He paints both directly on site and by memory in the studio. His oil on linen paintings are sensitive celebrations of nature, color, place and time. Johnson, who moved to Palo Al...
Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre: Pathways: A Walk Through the Australian Landscape
Jenny Bowker’s quilts take the viewer on a walk through Australia’s forest and beaches, and uses pathways and tracks through the landscape as a metaphor for moving through life. Beth and Trevor Reid work together to depict Australian rivers an...
British Library: Treasures from the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art
With artefacts and manuscripts from the libraries and museums of Armenia and other items from around the world, this will be the most museological exhibition ever staged by the British Library. Many exhibits have never been seen outside Armenia...
Haunch of Venison: Richard Long: The Time of Space
Since the mid-sixties Long has taken a radical approach to nature by expanding the potential scale of art through the medium of walking in the landscape. This exhibition reflects the global range of his work, from the Sahara to Scotland to Mong...
McK17 Public Art Project Space: undercurrent: New Works with Pigment on Paper by Katherine Fries
The concept for this series began at the beach, as I observed the patterns created on the shore as each wave seeped back into the ocean. I considered how to capture a sense of the repetitive yet shifting interplay between sea and sand, from the po...
Michael Hoppen Gallery: Hugo Bernatzik: Unseen Africa
The vast, open space of southern Sudan was, in 1927, one of the most remote places in Africa.  Situated at the confluence of several great rivers, the land was a sea of swamps and grasses, expanding and contracting with the seasonal rains.  It was...
Columbia Museum of Art: A Body of Work: The Human Figure from Degas to Diebenkorn
“The human figure has been a significant genre throughout the history of art. To examine the human figure and the techniques and styles in its depiction throughout the 20th century is the motivation behind organizing A Body of Work: The Human Figu...
Joslyn Art Museum: Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection
Spanning nearly 150 years of American history, the exhibition is drawn from the distinguished collection of Philip Anschutz, who holds the most important assemblage of Western art in private hands. Included in the exhibition are notable works by t...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Bernatzik - Africa: Vintage Photographs by Hugo A. Bernatzik
Hugo A. Bernatzik (1897-1953) abandoned his medical studies at the University of Vienna in the early 1920's and sought adventure in Spain and northwest Africa. He immediately became enthralled in the peoples and cultures he encountered. Upon his...
Tower of David Museum: Crowds Flock to the Chihuly Exhibition at the Tower of David
We are delighted and humbled by the public's reaction, noted Shosh Yaniv, the museum director. When Chihuly first visited us two years ago he was enchanted by the fortress as a unique location for his glass art and resolved to mount an exhibiti...
Tacoma Art Museum: Andy Goldsworthy: Mountain and Coast Autumn into Winter
Goldsworthy constructs his stunning creations in the landscape from materials found in the environment – for example, a stitched chain of vividly red maple leaves, placed in a long curving line threaded around rocks in a creek bed. He intends for ...
Maine Artists Space, Danforth Gallery: Just Rewards: Steffi Greenbaum, Jon King, John A. LeBlanc, Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest
John LeBlanc:
The Pastel paintings that will be showing at the Danforth Gallery are characterized by an animated style somewhere between abstraction and realism. Vibrant colors, and tapestry like texture give the pieces dynamism. Within these...
Atlantic Center for the Arts: Call for Artists: 2006 Artists-in-Residence Program
Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists each personally select a group of associates - talented, emerging artists - through an application process administered by ACA. During the residency,...
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Louise Bourgeois: Aller – Retour
One room offers a retrospective of older works by the French born artist. The focus of the show however lies on the oeuvre of the last ten years, the majority of which are diary-like drawings, in which text and symbols frequently mingle. The...
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts: Interior/Exterior Landscapes: Paintings by Doug Kinsey
"I refer to my images as 'Interior/Exterior Landscapes'. The central deep blue form will often call into mind the image of the human figure and/or forms found in geographical landscape. As a native of California I will often invoke an immense land...
Community Writers Association: PRODUCERS LEAVE HOLLYWOOD: PROVIDENCE LOOKS DIVINE FOR SPEAKERS AT NEW ENGLAND SCREENWRITERS CONFERENCE
This years award winning line-up of featured guests and key-note speakers include: writer D.C. Fontana (Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Waltons, High Chaparral, Bonanza, The Big Valley), independent producer Steve Fassler (Dunkin Donut...
Dia Center for the Arts: Two Part Exhibition by Roni Horn
Sited in two rooms, the pair of elements that comprise Untitled (Yes), 2001, activates memory to explore notions of difference and sameness. A glass block of exceptional clarity renders almost paradoxical the idea of physical transparency, whi...
Dia Center for the Arts: The Second Part of a Two-Part Exhibition of Works by Roni Horn
In Part I sited in two rooms, the pair of elements that comprise Untitled (Yes), 2001, activates memory to explore notions of difference and sameness. A glass block of exceptional clarity renders almost paradoxical the idea of physical transpar...

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