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Larry Rivers (1923 – 2002) was an “American painter, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the “Godfather” and ‘Grandfather’ of Pop art, he was one of the first artists to merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction” (from Wikipedia).
Carroll worked as Rivers’s assistant–sharpening pencils, stretching canvases, and baby-sitting–during the late sixties, early seventies. Carroll told Chet Flippo (PDF), “If there was anybody from around the art scene who had an influence on me, it was Larry. This was a real cool dude. I even started to imitate his
walk.”
Rivers appears as “D.M.Z.” in “Christmas with D.M.Z.” in Forced Entries (pp. 81-98). Rivers did the cover artwork for the first edition of Living at the Movies.