Enrique Riverón papers
name: label: Creator
content: Riverón, Enrique
label: Names
content: Wichita State University -- Faculty
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content: Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
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content: Bermúdez, Cundo, 1914-2008
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content: Cantinflas, 1911-1993
label: Names
content: Carreño, Mario
label: Names
content: Carreño, Mario -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Cugat, Xavier, 1900- -- Photographs
label: Names
content: De Diego, Julio, 1900-
label: Names
content: García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936
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content: Gattorno, Antonio
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content: Gómez Sicre, José
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content: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
label: Names
content: Kiki, 1901-1953
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content: Lozano Castro, Alfredo
label: Names
content: Milland, Ray -- Photographs
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content: Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 -- Photographs
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content: Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949 -- Photographs
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content: Peláez, Amelia, 1897-1968 -- Photographs
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content: Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
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content: Pidgeon, Walter, 1897-
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content: Prohias, Antonio
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content: Rebajes, Pauline
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content: Reed, Alma M. -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Russell, Rosalind -- Photographs
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content: Salinas, Baruj
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content: Sicre, Juan José -- Photographs
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content: Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 1896-1974 -- Photographs
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content: Tamayo, Rufino, 1899-1991 -- Photographs
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content: Waguermert, Luis Gomez -- Photographs
label: Names
content: Yunkers, Adja, 1900-1983
topic: label: Occupation
content: Illustrators
label: Occupation
content: Cartoonists
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Florida -- Miami
label: Topic
content: Cuban American art
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Cuba
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content: Expatriate artists -- Florida -- Miami
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content: Cuban American artists
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content: Magazine illustration
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content: Caricatures and cartoons
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content: Sculptors -- Florida -- Miami
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Enrique Riverón papers were donated to the Archives of American Art by Patricia Riverón Lee, daughter of Riverón, in 1996.
creator: label: Creator
content: Riverón, Enrique
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content: Enrique Riverón papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: 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.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: 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.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.3 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1918-1990s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.riveenri
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: 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)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed by Rosa M. Fernandez in 1997. The finding aid was written by Stephanie Ashley in 2002.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Content Note
content: 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.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Material
content: 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.