Paul Riba papers
name: label: Creator
content: Riba, Paul, 1912-1977
label: Names
content: Cleveland Institute of Art -- Faculty
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Ohio -- Cleveland
label: Occupation
content: Illustrators -- Ohio -- Cleveland
label: Topic
content: Magic realism (Art)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1997 by Nell Riba Hutt.
creator: label: Creator
content: Riba, Paul, 1912-1977
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Muralist, illustrator, educator; Cleveland, Ohio. Riba studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Cleveland Institute of Art. After a career as a mural painter and an illustrator in advertisting, he joined the faculty of The Cleveland Institute of Art, where he taught for fourteen years. Riba's style is often identified as Magic Realism.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1952-1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ribapaul
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Autobiographical essays; an obituary; awards; letters from the Carnegie Institute, the Society of Illustrators, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Milch Galleries, Grand Central Art Galleries, and others; correspondence with Marvin J. Gross, Don Kingman, Karal Ann Marling, Ernest W. Watson, and others; writings by Riba including an essay on Magic Realism and a draft of a book "Anatomy for the Artist"; sketches; photographs and printed material concerning his commissioned murals for the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (1937), the Cleveland Automobile Club (1947), the Warner and Swasey Company in Cleveland (1953), Statler Hotels, Cleveland, and others; papers concerning the Paul Riba Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Cleveland Institute of Art; photographs of Riba and his paintings; exhibition catalogs and announcements; tearsheets of Riba's illustrations; andnewspaper and magazine clippings.