Esteban Vicente

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Esteban Vicente
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid[2]
Known forPainting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Drawing,[4] Collage[4]
MovementAbstract expressionism[2]

Esteban Vicente Pérez (January 20, 1903 – January 10, 2001) was a Spanish American painter born in Turégano, Spain. He was one of the first generation of New York School abstract expressionists.[2] He identified as an antifascist.[5]

Early life

Esteban Vicente was born in

Banco de España so that the children could be educated at good Jesuit schools. Vicente was taken to the Museo del Prado by his father, an art enthusiast, almost every Sunday from the time he was four years old and began to draw when he was sixteen. He was expected to follow family tradition and join the army. After three months in military school he decided to become an artist.[1]

Training

Vicente enrolled at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid in 1921 intending to study sculpture. He completed his training in 1924. Commenting on his experience at the Academy he said "It doesn't give you any ideas about anything. It gives you tools, and teaches you about materials. Academic training is safe. It prepares you to be against."[6]

Career

He had his first one-man exhibition in Madrid in 1928, after which he left for

New York Studio School, where he taught for 36 years. Although he never exhibited in Spain during the rule of Francisco Franco
, in 1998 the Spanish government opened the Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art in Segovia.

Vicente maintained a house and studio in Bridgehampton, New York from 1964. His marriage to Estelle Charney ended in divorce in 1943.[2] Their daughter Mercedes, died at aged six.[2] A second marriage, to author Maria Teresa Babin, also ended in divorce.[2] Vicente died in Bridgehampton on January 10, 2001.[2] He was survived by his third wife, Harriet Peters, whom he married in 1961.[2]

He has been honored as a renowned artist and child advocate by a New York City Bronx School Public School 170, a Kindergarten to Second Grade school has been named the Esteban Vicente school. A family member has incorporated Art programs into the schools. Students' talents emerge as they are exposed to the culture. At PS 170 students learn about Esteban Vicente and his style, color and design. Examples of his work adorn the walls of the school.

Vicente has a museum devoted to him in

Segovia, Spain, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, and a street named after him in Turégano.[4]

In March 2011 the

Grey Art Gallery at New York University exhibited Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculpture by Esteban Vicente. In addition to 60 paper collages, the exhibit included 20 of Vicente's small-scale assemblages called divertimentos (toys), composed from pieces of found wood and covered with white plaster, with others composed of plastic and wood with architectonic elements.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Frank (1995), p. 11
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m SMITH, ROBERTA (January 12, 2001). "Esteban Vicente Dies at 97; An Abstract Expressionist". The New York Times. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
  3. ^ "Biography, Esteban Vincente". Museum de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vincente. "In 1940 he became an American citizen". Retrieved September 23, 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Glueck, Grace (April 7, 2000). "ART IN REVIEW; 'Vintage Vicente'". The New York Times. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
  5. ISBN 9780965581943
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  6. ^ Frank (1995), p. 11, 13
  7. ^ "Andre Emmerich Gallery records and Andre Emmerich papers, 1930-2008". Research collections. Archives of American Art. 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  8. ^ Oisteanu, Valery (March 2011). "Esteban Vicente: Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculpture". The Brooklyn Rail.

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