Enrique Riveron

Enrique Riverón was a Cuban-born American visual artist, designer, and educator. He worked in painting, sculpture, as a cartoonist, and illustrator.

Biography

Riverón was born in 1902, in Cienfuegos, Cuba. In the 1920s, he traveled to several European countries to study art under scholarship and attended the Real Academia de [Bellas Artes de San Fernando|Academia de San Fernando] in Madrid, Spain. His early works were Cubist and abstract. He returned to Cuba in 1927 and moved to the United States in 1937, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1943.
Riverón worked as a cartoonist at The [Walt Disney Company|Walt Disney Studios]. His works were shown in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Riverón's artworks are held in museum and public collections including at the Miami-Dade [Public Library System|Miami-Dade Public Library], Wichita Art Museum, the Rice Collection of Cuban Art, and the Ringling Museum of Art.
He died in 1998, in Coral Gables, Florida.