Riverón, Enrique.

Riveron, a painter, sculptor, cartoonist, illustrator from Miami, Fla. was born 1902 in Cuba. Carreño, also a painter, was born in Havana, Cuba, 1913, and later moved to Santiago, Chile.

From the description of Enrique Riverón letters to Mario Carreño, 1981-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502779

Painter, sculptor, cartoonist, illustrator; Miami, Fla.; b. 1902 in Cienfuegos, Cuba; d. 1998.

Riverón traveled and studied under scholarship in his early twenties to France, Italy, Belgium, and Spain. He attended the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid and had a one man show in Paris as well as several in Havana and New York. For a number of years he was a cartoonist for Havana newspapers as well as for magazines such as the New Yorker, Life, and Cine Mundial which was published in New York and widely circulated in Latin America. He worked for a time in Hollywood for Disney. After 1940 he focused on painting and sculpture, and moved to Miami as an exile in 1964.

From the description of Enrique Riverón papers, 1918-1990s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83754983