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Thyohat ant  \nDECKER LIBRARY  \nMaryland Institute,College of Art1400 Cathedral StreetBaltlmore,Marvland 21201  \nMarch-April,1982  \nStudio Marconi  \nVia Tadino 15  \n88014  \n20124 Milano,Italy  \nBIOGRAPHY  \n1925 Born August 17 in the Bronx,New York,to Samueland Sonya Grossberg.  \n1940Began career as a jazz saxophonist,and changedhis name to Larry Rivers.  \n1942 Enlisted in the U.S.Army Air Corps.  \n1943 Honorable discharge from the armed forces formedical reasons.Resumed career as musician.  \n1944 Studied music theory and composition at theJuilliard School of Music,New York.First exposureto art when a jazz musician showed him a paintingof a bass fiddle by Georges Braque.  \n1945Began painting at Old Orchard Beach,Maine.Married Augusta Burger.Son Steven born.  \n1946Separated from Augusta.Moved to Manhattan.Began to meet painters,poets and dancers.  \n1947 Enrolled in Hans Hofmann's school of painting inNew York and Provincetown.  \n1948 Enrolled at New York University as an arteducation major.  \n1949 First one-man exhibitionJane Street Gallery,New York.  \n1950 First trip to Europe,spending eight months in Pariswriting poetry.On returning to New York beganpainting full time,living with mother-in-law Bertha\"Berdie\"Burger and sons Joseph and Steven.  \n1951 Graduated B.A.in Art Education from New YorkUniversity.First of eleven annual solo exhibitions(except 1955)at Tibor de Nagy Gallery,organizedby representative John Bernard Myers.Begansculpting in plaster.Tibor de Nagy Gallery,New York.  \n1952 Designed sets for the play Try!Try!by FrankO'Hara,produced for the Artists'Theater by JohnBernard Myers.Tibor de Nagy Gallery,New York.  \n1953Completed Washington Crossing the Delaware.Moved to Southampton,Long Island.Tibor de Nagy Gallery,New York.  \n1954First exhibition of sculpture.First paintingacquisition (The Burial,by the Gloria VanderbiltFoundation).  \nTibor de Nagy Gallery,New York.Stable Gallery,New York (sculpture).  \n1955First major museum acquisition(WashingtonCrossing the Delaware,by the Museum ofModern Art).Won third prize in the CorcoranGallery national painting competition,for Self-Figure.  \n1956 Began a series of large paintings.Completed TheJourney.One of twelve artists representingAmerica at the \"IV Bienal Do Museu de ArteModerna de Sao Paulo\",Sao Paulo,Brazil.Tibor de Nagy Gallery,New York.  \n1957 IMother-in-law Berdie Burger died at age 66.Began sculpting in welded metal.Begancollaborating with Frank O'Hara on Stones,aseries of lithographs of illuminated poetry.Won$32,000 on the TV show The $64,000 Question.Tibor de Nagy Gallery,New York.  \n1958Spent a month in Paris playing around town inseveral jazz bands.Tibor de Nagy Gallery,New York.  \n1959 Having gone to the Cedar Tavern for many years,comes away with a poem wrapped in a Cedar BarMenu.Instead ofillustrating the poem(his originalintention),painted Cedar Bar Menu I.SeagramsBuilding purchased Me Il.Tibor de Nagy Gallery,New York  \n1960 Began collaboration with Kenneth Koch onpainting-poems.  \nTibor de Nagy Gallery,New York.Martha Jackson Gallery,New York(sculpture).1961Married Clarice Price.Painted in a studio inImpasse Ronsin where he met,became friends,and collaborated with Jean Tinguely.Tibor de Nagy Gallery,New York.Dwan Gallery,Los Angeles.1962The first Rivers-Tinguely collaboration,TheFriendship of America and France,was shownat the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.London's Tate Gallery purchases  \nParts of the Face:French Vocabularly Lesson.Rive Droite Gallery,Paris.Gimpel Fils Gallery,London.1963Completed the commissioned First New YorkFilm Festival Billboard.Dwan Gallery,Los Angeles.  \n1964 Travelled to Europe and North Africa.Informalartist-in-residence at the Slade School of FineArts,University of London,from January to June.Daughter Gwynne bornGimpel Fils,London.1965First comprehensive retrospective exhibition,of170 paintings,drawings,sculptures,and prints,toured five U.S.museums.Prepared The 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