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Enrique Riverón papers

Archives of American Art

Rebajes, Francisco (Frank)
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Object Details

sova.aaa.riveenri
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f97ec4c1-ff24-4264-8862-e6c643037bb5
Creator
Riverón, Enrique
Names
Wichita State University -- Faculty
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
Bermúdez, Cundo, 1914-2008
Cantinflas, 1911-1993
Carreño, Mario
Carreño, Mario -- Photographs
Cugat, Xavier, 1900- -- Photographs
De Diego, Julio, 1900-
García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936
Gattorno, Antonio
Gómez Sicre, José
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Kiki, 1901-1953
Lozano Castro, Alfredo
Milland, Ray -- Photographs
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 -- Photographs
Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949 -- Photographs
Peláez, Amelia, 1897-1968 -- Photographs
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
Pidgeon, Walter, 1897-
Prohias, Antonio
Rebajes, Pauline
Reed, Alma M. -- Photographs
Russell, Rosalind -- Photographs
Salinas, Baruj
Sicre, Juan José -- Photographs
Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 1896-1974 -- Photographs
Tamayo, Rufino, 1899-1991 -- Photographs
Waguermert, Luis Gomez -- Photographs
Yunkers, Adja, 1900-1983
Occupation
Illustrators
Cartoonists
Topic
Artists -- Florida -- Miami
Cuban American art
Artists -- Cuba
Expatriate artists -- Florida -- Miami
Cuban American artists
Magazine illustration
Caricatures and cartoons
Sculptors -- Florida -- Miami
Latino and Latin American artists
Provenance
The Enrique Riverón papers were donated to the Archives of American Art by Patricia Riverón Lee, daughter of Riverón, in 1996.
Creator
Riverón, Enrique
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Enrique Riverón papers
Summary
The papers of Cuban born painter, sculptor, cartoonist, and illustrator Enrique Riverón measure 3.3 linear feet and date from 1918-1990s. The collection contains correspondence, writings, diary entries, scrapbooks, printed material, and photographs documenting Riverón's career as an illustrator, cartoonist, painter and sculptor in the United States and Cuba and, to a lesser extent, Riverón's teaching career at Wichita University in Kansas.
Biographical Note
Painter, sculptor, cartoonist, and illustrator Enrique Riverón was born in 1902 in Cienfuegos, Cuba and belonged to the first generation of Cuban modernists, experimenting with Cubism and pursuing abstraction from very early on in his career. During his early twenties Riverón traveled to France, Italy, Belgium, and Spain to study under scholarships and attend the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. In 1926 Riverón's first major one-man exhibition took place at the Association Paris Amerique Latine where the catalog introduction was written by noted Mexican writer Alfonso Reyes. In 1927 Riverón returned to Havana and had a one-man show of his European work at the Asociación de Pintores y Escultores, as well as several other shows in Havana and New York. He moved to the United States in 1930 and became a United States citizen in 1943. In addition to being known for his naturalistic drawings of street life in Paris and Cuba, Riverón began working with collage in the 1930s and was, for a number of years, a cartoonist for newspapers in Havana and other publications such as The New Yorker and Cine Mundial which was published in New York and widely circulated in Latin America. He also worked in Hollywood for a time as an illustrator for Walt Disney Pictures. From 1940 on, Riverón focused on painting and sculpture. He moved to Miami from Wichita, Kansas, in 1964. Enrique Riverón died in 1998.
Extent
3.3 Linear feet
Date
1918-1990s
Archival Repository
Archives of American Art
Identifier
AAA.riveenri
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Scrapbooks
Photographs
Citation
Enrique Riverón papers, 1918-1990s. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into eight series. Series 1: Biographical Material, circa 1929-1960 (Box 1; 2 folders) Series 2: Correspondence, 1918-1991 (box 1, 0.6 ft.) Series 3: Writings, 1923-1980s, undated (box 1, 0.2 ft.) Series 4: Scrapbooks, 1920s-1990s, undated (boxes 1, 3, and 4, 0.7 ft.) Series 5: Artwork, 1958-1983, undated (boxes 1 and 5, 0.4 ft.) Series 6: Printed Material, circa 1930-1992 (boxes 2 and 5, 0.7 ft.) Series 7: Photographs, 1918-1992, undated (boxes 2, 5 and 6, 0.6 ft.) Series 8: Miscellany, 1927-1989, undated (box 6, 7 folders)
Processing Information
The collection was processed by Rosa M. Fernandez in 1997. The finding aid was written by Stephanie Ashley in 2002.
Rights
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Genre/Form
Scrapbooks
Photographs
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Cuban born painter, sculptor, cartoonist, and illustrator Enrique Riverón measure 3.3 linear feet, date from 1918-1990s and document Riverón's career as an illustrator, cartoonist, painter and sculptor in the United States and Cuba and, to a lesser extent, his teaching career at Wichita University in Kansas. The collection includes correspondence, the majority of which concerns Riverón's exhibitions; writings, primarily Riverón's recollections of his trips to Paris and Madrid and his memories of people he met in Latin America, Europe, and the United States; printed material documenting exhibitions and Riverón's work for magazines such as Cine-Mudial and Bally-Hoo; and photographs.
Restrictions
The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment.
Related Material
The Archives of American Art also has a collection of Enrique Riverón letters to Mario Carreño, 1981-1990, in which Riverón writes of their mutual friends, his memories of Cuba, health issues, politics, pricing paintings, collages, and his longings for Paris and New York.
AAA.riveenri
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f97ec4c1-ff24-4264-8862-e6c643037bb5
AAA.riveenri
AAA
Record ID
ebl-1503511476823-1503511476833-0

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  • Poems

  • Unidentified Individuals

  • Salazar, Toño

  • Group of Latin American Artists (GALA) Material

  • Bens, José M., Colegio de Arquitectos de Cuba en el Exilio

  • Baker, Josephine

  • Magazines with Riverón Caricatures and Illustrations

  • Paris Trip

  • Scrapbooks

  • Cartoons/Illustrations for Cine Mundial and Others

  • Original Color Drawing of Riverón by Unknown Artist

  • Vilá, H. Portell (includes illustrated letters)

  • Wooden, Howard, Wichita Art Museum

  • Miscellaneous Writings

  • Simoni, John P.

  • de Montparnasse, Kiki

  • Riverón's File on Antonio Prohias

  • Recuerdos de Un Viage a Isla Anglesa

  • Yunkers, Adya

  • Photographs of Riverón, Family, and Friends, Unidentified and

  • Periodicals with Articles Mentioning Riverón

  • Letters signed by Riverón, José Ramon Garcia, Pedrosa and Guillermo Martinez Marquez concerning start of a magazine

  • Hughes, Langston

  • Sicre, Juan José


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