Larry Rivers – Blue Collar Holiday, 1990 – Mixed Media
Larry Rivers – Blue Collar Holiday, 1990 – Mixed Media
Larry Rivers – Blue Collar Holiday, 1990 – Mixed Media
Larry Rivers – Blue Collar Holiday, 1990 – Mixed Media

Acrylic, oil stick, photo lithograph on paper, cast resin fiber, and wood.

Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil.

Published by Mixografia, Los Angeles.

'Blue Collar Holiday' by Larry Rivers is a mixed media work from 1990, measuring 120.4 × 96.5 × 8.9 cm — the notable depth signalling its three-dimensional, relief-like construction. A loosely rendered figure in a striped shirt and blue jeans sits sprawled in a white chair, occupying the centre of a composition fractured by diagonal scaffolding-like struts in red, black, yellow, and white against a flat periwinkle ground. Bone-shaped forms recur in the margins, lending the image an offhand, almost cartoon quality. Rivers spent his career fusing figuration with abstraction and drawing on the visual language of everyday American life, and this work exemplifies that approach: the working-class subject — signalled by denim, leisure posture, and the industrial lattice behind — is rendered with deliberate looseness, the paint visibly scrubbed and layered. It sits squarely within his late practice of combining painting, drawing, and sculptural relief on a single support.

Artwork Copyright © Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers (United States, 1923–2002) was a multifaceted artist whose work bridged Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Initially a jazz saxophonist, he transitioned to visual arts, creating paintings and sculptures that often incorporated commercial imagery and cultural references. Rivers' innovative approach significantly influenced post-war American art.
Artwork Copyright © Larry Rivers

Blue Collar Holiday, 1990

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Acrylic, oil stick, photo lithograph on paper, cast resin fiber, and wood.

Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil.

Published by Mixografia, Los Angeles.

'Blue Collar Holiday' by Larry Rivers is a mixed media work from 1990, measuring 120.4 × 96.5 × 8.9 cm — the notable depth signalling its three-dimensional, relief-like construction. A loosely rendered figure in a striped shirt and blue jeans sits sprawled in a white chair, occupying the centre of a composition fractured by diagonal scaffolding-like struts in red, black, yellow, and white against a flat periwinkle ground. Bone-shaped forms recur in the margins, lending the image an offhand, almost cartoon quality. Rivers spent his career fusing figuration with abstraction and drawing on the visual language of everyday American life, and this work exemplifies that approach: the working-class subject — signalled by denim, leisure posture, and the industrial lattice behind — is rendered with deliberate looseness, the paint visibly scrubbed and layered. It sits squarely within his late practice of combining painting, drawing, and sculptural relief on a single support.

Artwork Copyright © Larry Rivers
Larry Rivers (United States, 1923–2002) was a multifaceted artist whose work bridged Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Initially a jazz saxophonist, he transitioned to visual arts, creating paintings and sculptures that often incorporated commercial imagery and cultural references. Rivers' innovative approach significantly influenced post-war American art.
Artwork Copyright © Larry Rivers
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Larry Rivers – Blue Collar Holiday, 1990 – Mixed Media

Larry Rivers

Blue Collar Holiday, 1990

120.4 x 96.52 x 8.89 cm

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