Jim Dine (born 1935) is one of the major American Pop artists. He began printmaking in 1962, when he was introduced to the print studio and publishers Universal Limited Art Editions in New York by fellow artist Jasper Johns. He began by making prints of tools and bathroom paraphernalia and made several images of bathrobes that became a kind of surrogate self-portrait. In this image the numbers are random and meaningless and the title Red Pony was given to it because the finished image reminded Dine of a dappled pony.