The United Gas Pipe Line Company Collection

UGPL 0148 Dine, Jim, Realistic Poet Assassinated, 20/75, hand colored etching, 35” x 25,” 1971

Jim Dine (1935- )

Written in 1976 for the catalog and reproduced as printed, with spelling corrected. Not current.

Born in Cincinnati in 1935, Jim Dine moved to New York in 1958 as the Abstract Expressionist movement was waning and the era of ‘happenings’ and events was presaging the Pop Art explosion. As one of the New Realists, Dine had his first one-man show in 1961 of neckties, coats, hats, and bandanas painted in various styles. Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg were just beginning the new movement that led to the art of the 1960’s, and Dine’s “Pop Art” neckties became one of the famous symbols of the new style. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1968; and the Expo 67, in Montreal. In 1970 he was given a major retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York, and his Complete Graphics was published.

In 1966-67 Dine illustrated Apollinaire’s The Poet Assassinated, from which the present work is derived, at least by nomenclature.

From The Art Collection of United Gas Pipe Line Company (Houston, 1976), curated by Susan Rush.