Rivera, Gustavo — Print Documentation for "Cuerda Celeste" by Gustavo Rivera

San Francisco: Ernest F. De Soto Workshop, 1981. Detailed description of the edition of the lithograph. Contemporary photocopy. Original was signed in ink by artist and printer. This describes each color, the proofs and the edition. Born in 1940 in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, Gustavo Rivera has for the last sixty years established himself as a highly respected abstract painter and printmaker. Rivera belongs to a generation of Mexican artists who emerged between two distinctive eras: one, a society still clearly marked by Mesoamerican traditions, the mestizo land codified by the Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros and Ruffino Tamayo. The second, a postwar culture in the process of becoming truly international, which was moving inexorably beyond the grasp of those traditions as well as their representations, and which came of age during the 1960s. As an artist of this subsequent generation, Gustavo combines iconography of the indigenous cultural heritage of his native Mexico with classic techniques of Post War American Abstraction. Gustavo is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships and in 2006 the San Jose Museum of Art presented a retrospective exhibition of the artist's work that traveled to additional venues in Mexico and California. DSW edition no. 95. Provenance: Estate of Ernest F. De Soto. .