Jorge Luis Sicre-Gattorno (born 1958 in
Havana,
Cuba) is a Cuban-American painter.
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Education
Sicre is a graduate of the
University of California in
Santa Barbara, United States. His art work is in museum collections at the
Housatonic Museum of Art
The Housatonic Museum of Art is a museum at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The museum's collection is displayed throughout the college campus and in the Burt Chernow Galleries, which also hosts visiting exhibitions.
Coll ...
in
Bridgeport,
Connecticut, the
Museum of Modern Latin American Art in Washington, D.C., and in the
Bass Museum
The Bass Museum of Art is a contemporary art museum located in Miami Beach, Florida. The Bass Museum of Art was founded in 1963 and opened in 1964.
History Early years
John Bass (1891-1978) and Johanna Redlich (m. Feb. 21, 1921) were Jewish-imm ...
in
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and artificial island, man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the ...
.
Family
Jorge Sicre-Gattorno is the grandson of Cuban sculptor
Juan José Sicre
Juan José Sicre (born Juan José Sicre Velez; 1898 – 1974) was one of the greatest Cuban sculptors. His most famous sculpture is of José Martí y Pérez (1958) (the José Martí Memorial) in the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana.
Sicre grad ...
and the relative of Cuba's premier Vangardia painter,
Antonio Gattorno
Antonio Gattorno (born Havana, March 15, 1904 - died Acushnet, Massachusetts, 1980) was a Cuban painter. He was a distinguished member of the first generation of modern Cuban painters.Alonso ''et al'', p162.
Early life
He studied at the Academy ...
. His father,
Jorge Sicre, was a cellist in the
Cleveland Orchestra and then taught at the
Juilliard School. His mother, Candita Gattorno, was a psychiatrist.
He grew up in
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...
.
Other relatives are
José Gómez-Sicre
José Gómez-Sicre (July 6, 1916 in Matanzas, Cuba – July 22, 1991 in Washington, D.C.) was a noted Cuban lawyer, art critic and writer.
Education
Gómez-Sicre graduated from the University of Havana in 1941 with degrees in Consular Law and Po ...
, the late Cuban art critic and attorney;
Francisco Gattorno, a Cuban actor; and
Clemente G. Gomez-Rodriguez
Clemente Guillermo Gomez-Rodriguez (born January 25, 1939 in Havana, Cuba) is a former defense lawyer forced out of a 22-year-long legal criminal practice career in Cuba as punishment after his release from prison Combinado del Este for trying to ...
, a Cuban lawyer and writer.
Image:JorgeSicreArt.jpg, "Unicorn and Pegasus" oil on canvas by J. Sicre.
Career
In addition to exhibitions in galleries across North America and Europe, Sicre's work has been featured on two high-end fashion accessory lines
Jenellen, Inc. an
Icon Shoes, Inc. His paintings were a highlight at an event at th
Museo dell’Aeronautica Gianni Caproniin
Trento, Italy, and were showcased in the museum's 2008 calendar.
Image:JenellenJSicre.jpg, Fashion accessories by Jenellen, Inc., featuring artwork by J. Sicre.
Footnotes
References
Jorge Sicre*''Registro Social de la Habana 1958'' (Molina y Cia, S.A.)
External links
Artist's website
Cuban emigrants to the United States
Cuban painters
Modern painters
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
Living people
1958 births
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