Identity elements
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Enrique Riverón collection
Date(s)
- 1933-1981 (Creation)
Extent
1 Box
Name of creator
Biographical history
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.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
The collection contains 11 works in various media by the Cuban artist Enrique Riverón.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
This collection is open for research.
Physical access
Items from this collection are housed in the Cuban Heritage Collection located in the Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion on the second floor of the Otto G. Richter Library at the University of Miami.
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please contact chc@miami.edu for more information.
Preferred citation: Enrique Riverón Collection, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
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Finding aids
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Gift of Ruth Shack in memory of Richard Shack, 2018.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
Additional works and materials are held at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/enrique-rivern-papers-5433
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Alternative identifier(s)
Description control element
Rules or conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS).
Sources used
Archivist's note
Collection-level record created by Juan A. Villanueva, June 2020, and updated by Amanda Moreno, December 2020.
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Riverón, Enrique (Subject)