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Jose De Rivera

Jose De Rivera (1904 - 1985) was active/lived in New York, Louisiana.  Jose De Rivera is known for Sculptor-abstraction.

Jose de Rivera was an abstract-expressionis sculptor, who worked in metal. He was born Jose A. Ruiz in 1904 in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At age twenty he moved to Chicago and worked as a journeyman for seven years making tools, pipe fitting, and die-casting. He studied art in Chicago's Studio School with John Norton from approximately 1928 to around 1931. In 1932, de Rivera made a trip to Europe and Africa, including Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Egypt and when he returned he knew that he wanted to sculpt.

Employed by the Works Progress Administration-Federal Art Project in 1937-38, de Rivera made the aluminum, "Flight," for the Newark, New Jersey airport.

Many of de Rivera's sculptures are steel or bronze bands twisted into three-dimensional shapes. His earliest sculpture, dating from 1930, was smoothly surfaced, with elemental volumes emphasized. In 1938, with "Red and Black (Double Element)," he opened up his solid-core style by counter-posing two semi-circular al   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2815 characters.]  Artist bio

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