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Jim Dine (b. 1935) was one of the key artists that shaped American Pop Art in the 1960s. Like Jasper Johns, Wayne Thiebaud and Andy Warhol, Dine appropriated quintessential American images and icons.

Yet curiously, during its heyday, Dine remained on the periphery of the Pop Art movement and was more of a prominent contributor of the “Happenings” movement alongside Claes Oldenburg and John Cage.

Over the succeeding decades, Dine has become most well-known for his painting and printmaking of objects like bathrobes, neckties, hearts, and tools reducing them to their essence or transforming them into abstract allusions.

The rainbow is a popular supporting character, sharing space with his favorite subjects.

This is a simple but uplifting early work and a great example of Dine’s soft aesthetic, whimsy and muted palette.

Dine's work can be found in important public collections around the world. The Musée des Beaux Arts de Montreal and MoMA have particularly important collections of his work.

About Jim Dine

Considered a pioneer of both the Happenings and Pop art in the 1960s, Jim Dine is known merging familiar objects from popular culture with autobiographical content to make work distinguished by its bold, graphic style. Often repeating certain generic themes and motifs—such as hearts, skulls, and tools (as well as the Disney version of Pinocchio)—in multiple forms and mediums, his interest in seriality and the everyday are emblematic of the Pop style, yet Dine's work is simultaneously distinguished by his masterful draftsmanship.

In 1962, Dine was one of eight artists—along with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha—included in the seminal New Paintings of Common Objects exhibition curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), which is often credited with defining the then-emerging field of Pop art. The next year, his work was exhibited in Six Painters and the Object at the Guggenheim Museum, curated by Lawrence Alloway, which presented the work of six artists who would come to be among the most celebrated figures in postwar American art: Dine, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol.

Since his first exhibitions at the Judson Gallery in downtown New York in 1959, Dine's work has been exhibited regularly at major museums and galleries internationally. In addition to notable surveys of Pop art, Dine has been included in significant international shows such as Documenta 4 in 1967, Documenta 5 in 1972, and Documenta 6 in 1977, the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1997, as well as the 1973 Whitney Biennial and its precursor, the Whitney Annual, in 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1969. Dine has been the subject of hundreds of solo shows, including exhibitions at the Morgan Library and Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the National Gallery of Art in 2004.

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Rainbow Scissors

, 1969

Lithograph

40.00 x 28.00 in

101.6 x 71.1 cm

Edition of 75

Signed, dated 1969 and numbered by the artist.Comes with certificate of authenticity.

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About The Work

Jim Dine (b. 1935) was one of the key artists that shaped American Pop Art in the 1960s. Like Jasper Johns, Wayne Thiebaud and Andy Warhol, Dine appropriated quintessential American images and icons.

The rainbow is a popular supporting character, sharing space with his favorite subjects.

This is a simple but uplifting early work and a great example of Dine’s soft aesthetic, whimsy and muted palette.

Dine's work can be found in important public collections around the world. The Musée des Beaux Arts de Montreal and MoMA have particularly important collections of his work.