



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.
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.
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What is Gestural?
Gestural art is a term that describes painting with freely sweeping brushstrokes. The primary goal of gestural art is to allow the artist to physically express emotional impulses. The varied, yet expressive paint marks are intended to convey the artist's inner thoughts and emotions, which viewers are believed to understand through the dynamic and spontaneous application of paint.

Larry Rivers
Blue Collar Holiday, 1990
120.4 x 96.52 x 8.89 cm
























