"Mano Grande" (Big Hands), 1981 ARTIST - Eduardo Kingman Riofrío (1913 - 1997) Born in Loja, Eduardo is known as "the painter of hands" and was regarded as one of the masters of twentieth century expressionism. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Quito, with stops in Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, and in the United States at the San Francisco Art Institute. Eventually he received a chair at the same institute, was the director of Quito's Colonial Art Museum, and a owned private gallery also in Quito. While living in Quito, he became the protege of other famous Lojanos like writers Bejamin Carrion and Pablo Palacio. His lithographs, woodcuts, and paintings concentrated on the social realities of Ecuador's indigenous people. The artisit's deeply humanistic style captured the range of emotions from anguish, anger, and impotence in the face of injustice, to the quieter feelings of tenderness and devotion. As well as painting, Eduardo wrote a
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