Larry Rivers Poster Print "The Wall" discount Guild Hall Museum East Hampton NY, 36" x 30"

Larry Rivers Poster Print "The Wall" 36 x 30 Guild Hall Museum East Hampton NY

The Wall Original Larry Rivers Exhibition Poster East Hampton Guild Hall

Provenance: Gift of the artist to Don Shrader unsigned
Includes: Poster
Dimensions: 36" x 30"

Larry Rivers, American (1923 - 2002)
Rivers was an accomplished Jazz musician, a painter, sculptor, poet, actor, television personality, filmmaker, an MC at nightclubs, a popular personality on the lecture circuit, author and teacher. He's been aptly referred to as “a renaissance man,” but perhaps he's most often recognized and ironically at times equally underappreciated as one of if not the key founding fathers of Pop Art.

Andy Warhol never made it a secret that he was influenced by Rivers art, but in perhaps a more revealing quote from the book “Popism” Warhol recognizes Rivers unique persona as an influential ingredient in the development of Pop Art. Warhol said, “Larry's painting style was unique – it wasn't Abstract Expressionism and it wasn't Pop, it fell into the period in between. But his personality was very Pop.”

*Don Shrader was also mentioned in "Popism": "I knew I had to rent a studio to paint in. A friend named Don Shrader had come across an old firehouse on East 87th Street, a hook and ladder company that some guy had leased from the city of New York for about a hundred dollars a year, and the guy offered to sublet part of it to me. As soon as I moved my stuff over there, I began to look discount around for an assistant..."

This poster will be rolled for the first time for shipment, will be protected with acid free paper and packed in a triangular shaped box clearly marked Fragile do not puncture.

Please stay tuned for more posters being uploaded in the upcoming days related to River's Gallery exhibitions found in Shrader's estate(many signed).

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