Through a pen-and-ink crosshatching style born from a fascination with 19th-century graphic drawing and engraving, Crumb sheds light on the absurdity of social conventions, political disillusionment, racial stereotypes, and his own sexual fantasies and fetishes. Work by the artist is represented in major museum collections worldwide, including the Brooklyn Museum, New York Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles Musée régional d'art contemporain Occitanie, Sérignan, France Museum Ludwig, Cologne and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, among others. Terry Zwigoff’s documentary Crumb was named the best film of 1994 by the late critic Gene Siskel and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995. Crumb has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions such as Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, New York Whitechapel Gallery, London Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Museum Ludwig, Cologne Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Frye Art Museum, Seattle Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston and the Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California. Crumb’s genre-defining comic strips of the '60s and '70s ushered in a new age of self-expression in his medium while redefining comics as a countercultural art form.īorn in 1943 in Philadelphia, Crumb moved to the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, CA, during the height of the hippie movement in 1967 before settling in the South of France in 1991, where he has resided since.
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