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Félix R. Cordero Papers

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1992-007

Content Description

Félix R. Cordero is a Puerto Rican artist from Ponce. A disciple of Miguel Pou, he was a full-time painter of the Puerto Rico scenery. He studied in New York City and Chicago. In 1984, he received the Artist of the Year Award from the Institute of Puerto Rico in New York. For some time he was artist in residence at Taller Boricua where also directed and taught an art course. The collection consists of one legal size folder and includes slides, exhibition catalogues and information, pamphlets and a postcard. Materials date from 1981-1986.

Acquisition Type

Gift

Provenance

Gift of Félix R. Cordero.

Language of Description

English

Script of Description

Latin

Restrictions Apply

No

Dates

  • 1981-1986

Creator

Extent

0.05 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Spanish; Castilian

Metadata Rights Declarations

  • License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.



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Our collections consist of personal papers from prominent Puerto Rican artists, elected officials, social activists, writers, as well as the records of community-based organizations. Our largest collection, the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS) Records, measures approximately 2,900 cubic feet and contains an extraordinary amount of information regarding Puerto Rican migrants and the government institutions established to assist them. The collections date from the 1890s to the present, and document Puerto Rican communities in the Northeast, Midwest, Florida, California and Hawaii.