Gallery 17 Jim Dine

Jim Dine

Biography

Jim Dine was born June 16, 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dine studied at night at the Cincinnati Art Academy during his senior year of high school and then attended the University of Cincinnati, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Ohio University, Athens, from which Dine received his BFA in 1957. Dine moved to New York in 1959 and soon became a pioneer creator of Happenings. Dine exhibited at the Judson Gallery, New York, in 1958 and 1959, and his first solo show took place at the Reuben Gallery, New York, in 1960. Jim Dine is closely associated with the development of Pop Art in the early 1960s. Frequently he affixed everyday objects, such as tools, rope, shoes, neckties, and other articles of clothing, and even a bathroom sink, to his canvases. Characteristically, these objects were Dine’s personal possessions. This autobiographical content was evident in Dine’s early Cash series of 1959–60 and appeared as well in subsequent themes and images, such as the Palettes, Heats, and bathrobe Self-Portraits. Dine has also made a number of three-dimensional works and environments, and is well-known for his drawings and prints. Jim Dine has also written and illustrated several books of poetry. In 1965, Dine was a guest lecturer at Yale University, New Haven, and artist-in-residence at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. He was a visiting artist at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1967. In 1970, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, organised a major retrospective of Dine's work, and in 1978 the Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented a retrospective of his etchings. Dine lives in New York and Putney, Vermont.

Ties Lithograph with hand colouring 1976 ed 150 80x57 poa SOLD

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