Jim Dine

Jim Dine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1935. He studied at the University of Cincinnati and the Boston Museum School and received his BFA from Ohio University, Athens in 1957. He moved to New York in 1959, and with Claes Oldenburg, Allan Kaprow and Robert Whitman pioneered many Happenings. Dine's first solo show was at the Reuben Gallery, New York in 1960; there were major retrospectives of his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in 1970 and 1978 respectively.

Dine is closely affiliated with Pop Art. In his early work, he incorporated actual, everyday objects - tools, shoes, neckties, a bathrrom sink - into his canvases. Typically, these objects were Dine's own belongings, and as he has explained, he used popular images not for thier own sake, but rather because commonplace items were part of a personal landscape that allowed him to communicate something about his world.