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He was born in the Bronx , New York as Yitzoch Loiza Grossberg, and changed his name to Larry Rivers in 1940, after being introduced as Larry Rivers and the mudcats, at a local New York City pub. From 1940-45 he worked as a jazz saxophonist in New York City, and he studied at the Juilliard School Of Music in 1945-46. Rivers is considered by many scholars as being the "Grandfather" of pop art, because he was the first artist to really merge non-objective, non-narative art with narrative and objective abstraction. however because his styles constantly changed throughout his career many critics panned his work as being too "out there". Rivers took up painting in 1945 and studied at the Hans Hofmann School in 1947-48, and then at New York University . He was a Pop Art ist of the New York School , reproducing everyday objects of American popular culture as art. He appeared in the 1959 short film, '' Pull My Daisy '' and the 1983 film '' Lovesick ''. He was friends with the poet and curator Frank O'Hara with whom he collaborated on an article titled ''How To Make a Painting'' for the '' Evergreen Review ''. in the year before his death he had a retrospective at the cocran museam of art in washington, DC Rivers married Augusta Berger in 1945, and they had one biological son, Steven as well as an earlier adopted child Joseph. After a divorce, he married Clarice Price in 1961,and had two daughters Emma and Gwene Rivers but they separated in 1967. Later in life he had a relationship with a young painter named Daria Deshuk, and had his last child Sam Deshuk Rivers |
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