11 Facts About Jim Dine

Jim Dine was born on June 16,1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio and is an American artist whose œuvre extends over sixty years.

Jim Dine has been associated with numerous art movements throughout his career including Neo-Dada, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art to his canvases, yet he has actively avoided such classifications.

Jim Dine's work is held in permanent collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC ; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Gallery, London; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

Jim Dine's distinctions include his nomination as a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the British Museum Medal following his donation of 234 prints to the museum in 2014, membership of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Legion d'Honneur.

At Roberts' suggestion, Jim Dine subsequently studied for six months with Ture Bengtz at the School of Fine Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, before returning to Ohio University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1957.

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In 1958 Jim Dine moved to New York, where he initially taught at the Rhodes School.

Jim Dine continued to include everyday items in his work, which linked him to Pop Art—an affinity strengthened by his inclusion in the influential 1962 exhibition "New Painting of Common Objects" at the Pasadena Art Museum, curated by Walter Hopps and later cited as the first institutional survey of American Pop Art, including works by Robert Dowd, Joe Goode, Phillip Hefferton, Roy Lichtenstein, Edward Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud and Andy Warhol.

Jim Dine first depicted bathrobes in 1964 while searching for a novel form of self-portraiture at a time when "it wasn't cool to just make a self-portrait"; he thus conceived an approach without representing his face.

Jim Dine subsequently saw an image of a bathrobe in an advertisement in the New York Times Magazine, and adopted it as a surrogate self-portrait which he has since depicted in varying degrees of realism and expressionism.

Jim Dine has integrated real tools into his art from his earliest works to his current practice—for example, Big Black Work Wall, a painting with tools attached, and The Wind and Tools, three wooden Venus statues wearing girdles belts of tools—as well as depicting them in media including paintings, drawings, photographs and prints.

An extraordinary printing series involving tools is A History of Communism, in which Jim Dine printed tool motifs on top of lithographs made from stones found in an art academy in Berlin and showing four decades of students' work from the German Democratic Republic.