Jose de Rivera
Jose de Rivera (September 18, 1904 Baton Rouge, Louisiana - March 12, 1985 New York City) was an American abstract sculptor.[1]
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Life
He grew up in New Orleans. He dropped out of high school, but finished at a boarding school. He worked on a plantation, fixing farm machinery. In 1924, he moved to Chicago. He studied drawing with muralist John W. Norton. He worked for the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration. In 1932, he moved to Manhattan. He worked as a model maker for Sikorsky Aircraft. He served in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II, and at the Training Aids Development Center.
In 1946, he had his first one-man show at the Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York City.[2]
His work is in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[3] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[4]
Works
- Black, Yellow, Red, 1942 National Gallery of Art [5]
- American Pavilion at the Expo 58
- Construction #46, Chazen Museum of Art[6]
- Form, 1964 World's Fair [7]
- Infinity, 1967, National Museum of American History
- Construction #105, 1968, Rochester Institute of Technology [8]
Sources
- Jose De Rivera: Sculpture, Painting, Works on Paper, Valerie Carberry Gallery, 2002, ISBN 0-9724837-0-5
- Dore Ashton, Jose De Rivera: Constructions, Abner Schram, January 1983, ISBN 978-0-8390-0311-3
References
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- ↑ http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1850&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio
- ↑ http://hirshhorn.si.edu/search.asp?search=&objNumber=&objNumberExact=true&artists=Rivera+Jose&withImage=true&collection_search_advanced=GO
- ↑ http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/all/listview.aspx?page=1&sort=4&sortdir=desc&keyword=%22Jose%20de%20Rivera%22&fp=1&dd1=0&dd2=0&lSort=4&vw=1
- ↑ http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/tsearch?oldartistid=79400&imageset=1
- ↑ http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=41655&int_sec=2
- ↑ http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fmcp/highlights/12149
- ↑ http://artoncampus.rit.edu/artist/97/
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- "Oral history interview with José de Rivera, 1968 Feb. 24", Archives of American Art
- http://www.artnet.com/artists/jos%C3%A9+de-rivera/
- http://www.valeriecarberry.com/jose-de-rivera-exhibition-02.php
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