Letters to Mario Carreño from Enrique Riveron
name: label: Creator
content: Carreño, Mario
label: Creator
content: Riverón, Enrique
topic: label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1997 by Ido Gonzalez de Carreño, the wife of Mario Carreño.
creator: label: Creator
content: Carreño, Mario
label: Creator
content: Riverón, Enrique
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mario Carreno (1913-1999) was a painter, born in Havana, Cuba and later moved to Santiago, Chile. He friend Enrique Riverón (1902-1998) was a painter, sculptor, cartoonist, and illustrator from Miami, Florida.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 34 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.riveenri2
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 5142 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to lender after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Riveron's letters to his friend and fellow Cuban artist Mario Carreño are chatty and informal. He writes about his wife Noella, various exhibitions, mutual friends, memories of their days in Cuba, health issues, politics, the weather, pricing paintings, his collages, his longings for Paris and New York, and holidays. All letters are in Spanish.