biography of Enrique E. MONTENEGRO (1917)

Birth place: Valparaiso, Chile

Addresses: Baltimore, MD (1973); Albuquerque, NM (1980s)

Profession: Painter

Studied: Univ. Florida (B.F.A., 1944); ASL (out-of-town scholarship, 1944-45); Colorado Springs FA Center, summer 1943; Morris Kantor; Kunioshi; Boardman Robinson.

Exhibited: Gal. Escondida, Taos, 1951; New Talent in the USA, Art in Am. Magazine Traveling Show, 1955; North Carolina Mus. Art, 1957 (solo); Parma Gal., NYC, 1959 (solo); Landau Gal., Los Angeles, 1960; The Painter and the Photograph, Art News Ann. Traveling Show, 1965. Awards: Denver Mus. Art Purchase Prize, 1953; Catherwood Award study in Europe, 1956.

Work: Denver (CO) Mus. Art; North Carolina Mus. Art, Raleigh; Colorado Springs FA Center; Issac Delgado Mus., New Orleans; Mt. Holyoke College Mus., South Hadley, MA

Comments: His early style is abstract expressionsim, but his later style is concerned with social realism. Teaching: Univ. New Mexico, Brown Univ., Penn.a State Univ., Colorado Springs FA Center, Mt. Holyoke College, Univ. Florida & North Carolina State College, 1946-.

Sources: WW73; Fred Bartlett, New Talent in the USA," Art in Am. Mag. (Feb., 1955); Dorothy Seiberling, "New Painters of the West," Life Magazine (Nov. 4, 1957); Hiram Williams, Notes for a Young Painter (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963); article, "La Galeria Escondida," Artforum (n.d.)"