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| A painter and art educator, Joseph Cintron has taught for nearly fifty years at the Cleveland Institute of Art and is regarded as "one of Cleveland's finest formal portraitists". (96). He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and showed enough early talent for drawing that his family arranged formal art training for him by the time he was age eleven.
In New York City, he was a student of Robert Henri, who had a long lasting influence on Cintron's portrait work. He also studied at the Art Students League with George Bridgman, and in Philadelphia, Cintron studied with impressionists.
Joseph Cintron left Puerto Rico for the United States in 1939 when he was seventeen years old, but it was his religious dedication to the Marianists who were active at the University of Dayton rather than art studies that inspired him to emigrate. He learned classical languages, religion and philosophy and taught in high schools, and took art classes part time at the Cleveland Institute. This education eventually led him to commit to art rather than religion. Some of his most influential teachers at the Institute were Frank Wilcox, Paul Travis and Rolf Stoll..
In 1956, Citron began teaching a life and portrait drawing class at the Cleveland Art Institute, and from 1963 to 1983, he also taught at the Cooper School of Art. He painted portraits of many of his students during his teaching days, and for him, these portraits have become a visual record of many special people.
In 1962, Citron began studies wtih Robert Brackman at Brackman's summer school in Madison, Connecticut, and Citron credits Brackman with being the most important influence on his painting, beginning with emphasis on color rather than just drawing.
Source:
Marianne Berardi, 'The Art of Joseph M. Cintron', "American Art Review", Janaury 2005. |
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