Prolific American artist, illustrator, stage designer and poet, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he studied at the Arts Academy, 1951–3, then at the Boston Museum School and Ohio University, 1954–7. Having married and moved to New York, Dine became involved in Happenings, 1959–60, and began making his first assemblages and producing the paintings, sculptures and prints related to everyday objects for which he became famous, as well as art focusing on the materials of the artist and tools. Repetition of a theme in various mediums was a characteristic of Dine’s output. His work was widely exhibited in America, where he set up numerous temporary studios, but from the mid-1980s he was based in New York and Washington. His work was also exhibited widely internationally, later British shows including Tools and Plants, Alan Cristea Gallery, 2005. Dine had had a first painting show at the Robert Fraser Gallery in London 1965 and in 1966 a big section of the exhibition entitled London there, in which he collaborated with Eduardo Paolozzi, was seized by the police under the Obscene Publications Act. From 1967–71 Dine lived and worked in London, where he was involved in producing prints with Editions Alecto and the Petersburg Press. Victoria & Albert Museum; Museum of Modern Art in New York; National Museum of American Art in Washington; Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, hold Dine’s prints.

^{Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)}