Rimer Cardillo papers
name: label: Creator
content: Cardillo, Rimer
label: Names
content: State University of New York at New Paltz
topic: label: Occupation
content: Graphic artists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Artists -- Uruguay
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Rimer Cardillo in 2015 and 2021.
creator: label: Creator
content: Cardillo, Rimer
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content: Rimer Cardillo papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of Uruguayan artist Rimer Cardillo measure 4.5 linear feet and date from 1960 to 2014. The collection documents Cardillo's career as a graphics artist through correspondence; notes, notebooks, and other writings; resumes, artist statements, exhibitions, and other professional activity; faculty reports, course syllabi, research awards and grants, and other material related to his career at State University of New York at New Paltz; price lists, invoices, receipts, and other personal business records; clippings, newsletters, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and other printed material; and sketches, designs, engraving patterns, and other artwork.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Rimer Cardillo (1944-) is a printmaker and graphic artist in Wallkill, N.Y. 

Cardillo was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He attended the National Institute of Fine Arts in Montevideo graduating in 1968. He continued his art studies in Germany at the Weissenssee School of Art and Architecture and the Leipzig School of Graphic Arts. In 1979, Cardillo immigrated to the United States. He became a professor of printmaking at the State University of New York, New Paltz. 

Cardillo has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and Figari Award among others. He has exhibited his work throughout the United States, South America, and Europe. His work can also be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura of Mexico, Museum of Modern Art, Art Museum of the Americas, and in various private collections.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.5 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960-2014
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cardrime
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into seven series.

Series 1: Correspondence, 1971-2010 (1.1 linear feet; Boxes 1-2)

Series 2: Writings, circa 1968-2001 (0.4 linear feet; Box 2)

Series 3: Professional Activity Files, 1960-2010 (0.7 linear feet; Boxes 2-3)

Series 4: State University of New York at New Paltz, 1993-2014 (0.8 linear feet; Box 3)

Series 5: Personal Business Records, 1972-2011 ( 0.2 linear feet; Box 4)

Series 6: Printed Material, 1960-2012 (0.9 linear feet; Boxes 4, 6)

Series 7: Artwork, 1963-1992 (0.4 linear feet; Boxes 5-6)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Sarah Mundy in 2018. An addition was processed and the finding updated by Ricky Gomez in 2022.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of Uruguayan artist Rimer Cardillo measure 4.5 linear feet and date from 1960 to 2014. The collection documents Cardillo's career as a graphics artist through correspondence; notes, notebooks, and other writings; resumes, artist statements, exhibitions, and other professional activity; faculty reports, course syllabi, research awards and grants, and other material related to his career at State University of New York at New Paltz; price lists, invoices, receipts, and other personal business records; clippings, newsletters, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and other printed material; and sketches, designs, engraving patterns, and other artwork.

Correspondence consists of letters from Cardillo's parents, son, and former wife Graciela Italiano. Also included are letter from friends back in Uruguay and from institutions both in Uruguay and the United States. There are also files of greeting and Christmas cards.

Writings consist of notebooks, notes, and articles on Cardillo by Fernando Garcia Esteban, Angel Kalenberg, and Jose Pedro Argul.

Professional activity consists resumes and artist files. Also included are exhibition files for museums and for biennials at various graphic art and printmaking conferences in the United States, Uruguay, Italy, Japan,and Poland. Some of the exhibitions include: "Charruas y Montes Criollos," "Primitivism in the 20th Century," and "Cupi de Montecatini." Also included are three files of photographs consisting of photographs of Cardillo, photographs and slides of some of his artwork, and photographs from Bienal Barrio de America in 1992.

State Univeristy of New York at New Paltz consists of some administrative papers, a binder of general correspondence and course syllabi, binders of annual faculty reports, and files related to research awards and grants that Cardillo applied for and received. Also included are files related to the creation of the "Impressions" exhibition on Cardillo's work organized by Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. These files are primarily drafts of the text for the exhibition catalog, design layout and images for the catalog, and photographs of Cardillo's works for inclusion in the catalog.

Personal business records consist of inventories and price lists, receipts, a binder of loan agreements and invoices, and designs and contractor agreements and receipts for the construction of a new studio.

Printed material consists of clippings including reviews of the exhibition Revelaciones / Revelations: Hispanic Art of Evanescence, exhibition announcements and catalogs, and newsletters relating to Cardillo's career as a printmaker and graphic artist. Also included are exhibition announcements by other artists and published articles by individuals such as Shifra Goldman, Amalia Mesa-Baines, and Fernando Garcia Esteban.

Artwork consists of sketches, furniture designs, designs for new studio, engraving designs, posters, and a binder of drawings of clothing designs for participants in the "Words Divine: A Miracle Play" put on by INTAR Hispanic American Arts in 1992.