Larry Rivers / Europe I / 1956

Larry Rivers
Europe I
1956
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Creator Name: Rivers, Larry
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: painter
Creator Dates/Places: b. 1923
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Larry Rivers
Title: Europe I
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1956
Creation End Date: 1956
Creation Date: 1956
Object Type: Paintings
Classification Term: oil on canvas
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: H.72 x W.48 in.
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 57.34
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Copyright: Art: © Artist or Artist's Estate/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Rights: www.vaga.org
Context:

Larry Rivers was one of many artists who came of age towards the close of the abstract expressionist movement but is one of the very few who emerged as a leader of the succeeding movement towards figurative art. While he admired and adapted the vigorous painterly handling and color rhythms of Willem de Kooning, Rivers subjected these expressionistic tendencies to a figural representation that achieved haunting, recognizable images from fused, blurred and fragmented elements.

Recollections of family history, and use of the photograph as a historical document, were central to many of Rivers' paintings of this period . Europe I is based on a photograph of the artist's great-uncle and cousins taken in Poland around 1928.

AMICA ID: MIA_.57.34
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2002
Media Metadata Rights: ? The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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