José de Rivera
De Rivera in 1937
Born	José Ruiz de Rivera (1904-09-18)September 18, 1904 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US
Died	March 12, 1985(1985-03-12) (aged 80) New York City, US
Occupation	Sculptor
Notable work	Infinity (1967) Black, yellow, red (1942)

José Ruiz de Rivera (September 18, 1904 – March 12, 1985) was an American abstract sculptor.^[1][2]

José Ruiz de Rivera was born inBaton Rouge, Louisiana and grew up inNew 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 toChicago. He studied drawing with muralistJohn W. Norton and worked for theFederal Arts Project of theWorks Progress Administration.

In 1932, he moved toManhattan. He also worked as a model maker forSikorsky Aircraft. He served in theUnited States Army Air Corps inWorld War II, and at the Training Aids Development Center.

In 1946, he had his first one-man show at theMortimer Levitt Gallery, New York City.

In 1947–52, de Rivera'sBlack, yellow, red (1942) was exhibited in the 25-venuePainting toward architecture exhibition organized by theMiller Company Collection of Abstract Art. The artwork received a lot of media attention during the exhibition and was the artwork spotlighted (via the one photo accompanying the article) inThe New York Times article about the first venue of the exhibition at theWadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT.^[3] A photo of the artwork was also used to accompany an article about the exhibition inNewsweek.^[4][5]Black, yellow, red was also featured inHenry-Russell Hitchcock's accompanying bookPainting toward architecture (1948), with foreword byAlfred Barr of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.^[6] The artwork was also the basis for the cover of a Miller Company heater design catalogue, thematically called "A spiralating heat wave".^[7]

In 2002–03, theValerie Carberry Gallery in Chicago exhibitedJose de Rivera: Abstract Sculpture, Painting and Works on Paper.^[8]

On March 12, 1984, at the age of 80, de Rivera died at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, five weeks after suffering a stroke.^[1]

• Black, Yellow, Red, (1942).National Gallery of Art, 1977.75.8^[9]
• American Pavilion at theExpo 58
• Construction #46,Chazen Museum of Art^[10]
• Form,1964 World's Fair^[11]
• Infinity, 1967,National Museum of American History
• Construction #105, 1968,Rochester Institute of Technology^[12]
• Construction #35, 1956,Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 66.1277^[13]
• Construction #76, 1961, Hirshhorn, 66.1279^[14]
• Construction #107, 1969, Hirshhorn, 72.91^[15]
• Construction, Red and Black, 1954, Hirshhorn, 66.1278^[16]
• Construction in Yellow, Black, Red and White, c. 1949–1952, Hirshhorn, 86.1412^[17]
• Homage to the World of Minkowski, 1954–1955,Metropolitan Museum of Art, 55.204ab^[18]
• Construction #158, 1974–1975, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.432ab^[19]
• A Wishing Star, 1956,Dallas Statler Hilton^[20]

• Pachner, Joan (2002).José de Rivera : sculpture, paintings, works on paper : 1 November 2002-3 January 2003. Chicago, IL:Valerie Carberry Gallery.ISBN 9780972483704.OCLC 53228605.
• Ashton, Dore; Marter, Joan M. (1980).José De Rivera, constructions. Madrid: Taller Ediciones.ISBN 9788473300858.

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• Hilton Kramer (October 11, 1969)."Art Once Cold, Now Romantic"(PDF).The New York Times.
• "Oral history interview with José de Rivera, February 24, 1968", Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

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• Artists from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
• 20th-century American sculptors
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