It's the End of the Evening
2011
Acrylic + sand on canvas
72 x 72"

Winter Robe
1980
Etching
40 x 30"

Jim Dine (b. 1935) was born in Cincinnati. After studying at the Boston Museum School, he moved to New York City in the late 1950s, where he took an active role in many of the performance artworks of the era, called “Happenings,” collaborating with artists Claes Oldenburg and Robert Whitman. For a time, he shared a sensibility with the Pop art movement, and has remained devoted to the depiction, incorporation and celebration of everyday objects and motifs in his artwork.

Dine's method involved repeating his theme again and again, often in several mediums. Through a process of exploration and reinvention, the common image lost its place in the public domain and was stamped exclusively with the artist's signature, becoming his vehicle for communicating a range of emotional and aesthetic intentions.