Sam Hunter papers relating to Larry Rivers

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Sam Hunter papers relating to Larry Rivers

1950-1969

Research materials collected for Hunter's monograph LARRY RIVERS (Harry Abrams, Inc., 1969).

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SNAC Resource ID: 6737729

Archives of American Art

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Rivers, Larry, 1925-2002

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Larry Rivers (1925-2002) was a painter from Southampton, N.Y.). From the description of Oral history interview with Larry Rivers, 1968 Nov. 2 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84233674 Larry Rivers was born Yitzhok Loiza Grossberg to Russian-Jewish parents in 1923 (sometimes claimed to be 1925) in the Bronx, New York, changing his name to Larry Rivers in 1940 after being introduced as "Larry Rivers and the Mudcats" performing at a local pub. From 1940-1945 he...

Hunter, Sam, 1923-....

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Art historian and educator; Princeton, New Jersey. Hunter has taught at Princeton since 1969. He has worked in many capacities for Harry N. Abrams, Inc., including editor-in-chief, 1971-72. He has curated and consulted for museum exhibitions at several institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Minneapolis Art Institute and the Princeton Art Museum. Larry Rivers is a contemporary painter known for his life-size portraits. From the descript...