Photography by: Roberto G. Rivera Sánchez, Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation…

Trees

Artist Carlos Raquel Rivera (Puerto Rican, 1923-1999)

Date1957

Object number59.0102

Mediumoil on Masonite

Dimensions44 13/16 x 24 3/4 in. (113.8 x 62.9 cm)
frame: 47 x 27 x 1 5/8 in. (119.4 x 68.6 x 4.1 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.

Collections

Puerto Rican Paintings

DescriptionIn 1957, the artist created one of his first enigmatic in-shadow landscapes, which anticipate the night scenes that he would immortalize in works such as “Paroxismo” (1963) and “Niebla” (1965). Trees, a dark landscape that presents a tangle of branches, and an indefinite light (a crucial element in the artist’s oeuvre) illuminate only one of the bare trees that occupy most of the composition.

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