Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers | |
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Rivers in 1961 | |
| Born | Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg August 17, 1923 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | August 14, 2002 (aged 78) Southampton, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Hans Hofmann School |
| Known for | Painting, sculpture |
| Movement | East Coast figurative painting, new realism, pop art |
| Spouses | Augusta Berger
(m. 1945; div. 1946)Clarice Price
(m. 1961; sep. 1967) |
Larry Rivers (born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg; August 17, 1923 – August 14, 2002) was an American painter, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was one of the first artists to merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction.