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Río Cauto, Island of Cuba
(Río Cauto, Isla de Cuba)
Author: Henry Cleenewerck
Year: 1868
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 27 x 40 3/4 inches
Inventory No: 07330
Price: $
AVAILABLE
Illustrated in IMPORTANT CUBAN ARTWORKS,
Volume Twenty-One, Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, FL,
2024, page 4.
Henry Cleenewerck (1825-1901) Born in Watou, Belgium,
he visits the United States in 1854. By 1863, he is living
in Havana where he paints a large commissioned canvas
for the Count of Fernandina. During his stay in Cuba,
estimated to be for a period of five years, Cleenewerck
is lauded for his talent as a landscape painter, one who
captured the subtleties and the spirit of the long, lost,
dense and colorful tropical jungle that still existed in the
countryside in the mid-1850s in Cuba.
Probably in 1868, Cleenewerck travels to Paris, where
he stays until 1873. There, the artist sells some Cuban
landscapes that he might have brought with him from
his Cuba years, and others that he paints from his memories.
Towards the end of his life, Henry Clenewerck moves to Brussels,
Belgium, where he dies
in 1901.
Ramón Cernuda,
One Hundred Years of Cuban Landscape, 1850 To 1950, 2001,
Page 37.
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