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    		• Compostela,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Rivera, Luis Munoz
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Munoz Rivera, Luis
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Hispanic
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Puerto Rican
     
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    		• Occupation -- Other
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture
     
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    		• Copy
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Luis Munoz Rivera, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Compostela, 1898- , sculptor.
    Title: 
    Luis Munoz Rivera, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Original 1959. Dedicated July 1968.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: marble.
    Inscription: 
    (On sculpture:) Compostela/P R 7 59 (On front of base:) DON LUIS MUNOZ RIVERA signed
    Description: 
    A portrait of Don Luis Monoz Rivera that shows just his face and part of his head emerging from a small mound. The base is a rough-cut rectangular block of stone. The sculpture was stolen in 1979 and only the base remains in Washington Park.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Rivera, Luis Munoz -- Head
    Portrait male -- Munoz Rivera, Luis -- Head
    Ethnic -- Hispanic
    Ethnic -- Puerto Rican
    Occupation -- Other -- Businessman
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture
    Copy
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Stolen.
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Washington Park, Newark, New Jersey until 1978.
    Remarks: 
    Luis Munoz Rivera (1849-1916) was a founder and publisher Spanish of language newspapers in both Puerto Rico and in New York. He is known as the George Washington of Puerto Rico because he was successful in his negotiations with the Spanish government for Puerto Rico's Charter of Autonomy in 1897. He served as the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in 1910 and again in 1914-1915. He also negotiated the Jones Act with Woodrow Wilson which passed Congress in 1917 providing U.S. citizenship to all Puerto Ricans.
    The sculpture is a copy of one in the Legislature of Puerto Rico in San Juan. A committee formed by Ms. Ana Diaz and Ms. Blanca Martinez organized the installation of the copy in Washington Park. In 1978, the sculpture was removed for repairs after vandals tried to pry it off the base. In 1979, however, it was stolen from a locked warehouse at 137 South Street. At the time of the 1995 SOS! survey, the base was still installed in Washington Park. IAS files contain newspaper articles from The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), Aug. 8, 1979 and May 26, 1985.
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    "Newark Museum Quarterly," Newark, N.J.: Newark Museum Association, Winter 1975.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Jersey survey, 1995.
    Illustration: 
    Newark Museum Quarterly (Winter 1975): pg. 14.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS 76001620
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