Enrique Riverón (1902–1998) was a Cuban-born American visual artist, designer, and educator. He worked in painting, sculpture, as a cartoonist, and illustrator.

Enrique Riverón
Born1902
Died1998
Coral Gables, Florida, United States
EducationReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Occupation(s)Visual artist, designer, educator
EmployerWalt Disney Studios
Known forPainter, sculptor, cartoonist, illustrator

Biography

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Riverión was born in 1902, in Cienfuegos, Cuba.[1] In the 1920s, he traveled to several European countries to study art under scholarship and attended the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid, Spain. His early works were Cubist and abstract. He returned to Cuba in 1927 and moved to the United States in 1937, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1943.[2]

Riverón worked as a cartoonist at Walt Disney Studios, has his works were shown in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Riverón's artworks is in museum and public collection including at the Miami-Dade Public Library, Wichita Art Museum,[3] the Rice Collection of Cuban Art,[4][5] and the Ringling Museum of Art.[6]

He died in 1998, in Coral Gables, Florida.[2][7]

References

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  1. ^ Cullen, Deborah (2009). Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis. Museo del Barrio. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-300-15896-0 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b "Biographical Note | A Finding Aid to the Enrique Riverón papers, 1918-1990s". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
  3. ^ "Per Se". Wichita Art Museum. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  4. ^ "Under the Spell of the Palm Tree: The Rice Collection of Cuban Art. The Harn Museum of Art. FL July 11, 2023, to January 7, 2024". www.sandraramosart.com. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  5. ^ "Alachua County Today - Harn Museum of Art Presents "Under the Spell of the Palm Tree"". Alachua County Today. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  6. ^ "Enrique Riveron". Ringling Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  7. ^ "Riverón, Enrique". Cintas Foundation. Retrieved 2024-09-24.