14 Facts About Esteban Vicente

Esteban Vicente Perez was a Spanish American painter born in Turegano, Spain.

Esteban Vicente was one of the first generation of New York School abstract expressionists.

Esteban Vicente was born in Turegano, Spain on January 20,1903.

Esteban Vicente's mother, Sofia Perez y Alvarez came from an Asturian family and was born in Valladolid.

Esteban Vicente's father, Toribio Vicente Ruiz, came from a military family near Salamanca and was an army officer.

Esteban Vicente was taken to the Museo del Prado by his father, an art enthusiast, almost every Sunday from the time he was four years old and began to draw when he was sixteen.

Esteban Vicente was expected to follow family tradition and join the army.

Esteban Vicente enrolled at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid in 1921 intending to study sculpture.

Esteban Vicente had his first one-man exhibition in Madrid in 1928, after which he left for Paris and did not return to Spain until 1930.

Esteban Vicente had ample time to continue with his art and had his first one-man show in New York at the Kleeman Gallery in 1937.

Esteban Vicente was a founding member of the New York Studio School, where he taught for 36 years.

Esteban Vicente maintained a house and studio in Bridgehampton, New York from 1964.

Esteban Vicente was survived by his third wife, Harriet Peters, whom he married in 1961.

Esteban Vicente has been honored as a renowned artist and child advocate by a New York City Bronx School Public School 170, a Kindergarten to Second Grade school has been named the Esteban Vicente school.