Jim Dine

American, born 1935

Tennis Shoe

Jim Dine (American, born 1935). Tennis Shoe, 1962. Painted tennis shoe and laces with paper collage and oil on wood, 17 1/2 x 20 x 5 inches (44.5 x 50.8 x 12.7 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Gift of Linda Hyman, 2001 (2001:14.2). © Jim Dine / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

© Jim Dine / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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© Jim Dine / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Tennis Shoe, 1962

Artwork Details

Materials

painted tennis shoe and laces with paper collage and oil on wood

Measurements

support: 17 1/2 x 20 x 5 inches (44.45 x 50.8 x 12.7 cm); framed: 19 x 21 1/2 x 5 inches (48.26 x 54.61 x 12.7 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

Gift of Linda Hyman, 2001

Accession ID

2001:14.2

In 1959, Jim Dine traveled to New York, where he took part in some of the city’s early Happenings—spontaneous and experiential performances in which the audience was often encouraged to participate. A year later, he began to focus more on a painterly practice that incorporated physical objects, a love of which came from working in his family’s hardware stores as a youth. He frequently affixed everyday objects, such as tools, rope, and articles of clothing, to his canvases. Here, a tennis shoe camouflaged in a layer of piggy-pink pigment emerges from the lower portion of the picture plane. While Dine is associated with the development of Pop art, he downplayed this connection in a 1966 interview, stating, “I’m not a Pop artist. . . . When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings. I can spend a lot of time with objects, and they leave me as satisfied as a good meal. I don’t think Pop artists feel that way.”

Label from Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, June 30–December 30, 2018

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