Editing Eduardo Kingman

{{Short description|Ecuadorian artist}}
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| birth_name   = Eduardo Kingman Riofrío
| birth_date   = February 23, 1913
| birth_place  = [[Loja, Ecuador|Loja]], Ecuador
| death_date   = {{Death-date and age| November 27, 1997|February 23, 1913}}
| death_place  = [[Quito]], Ecuador
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| awards       = [[Premio Eugenio Espejo]] (1986)
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'''Eduardo Kingman Riofrío''' (February 23, 1913 – November 27, 1997) was an [[Ecuador|Ecuadorian]] artist. He is considered one of Ecuador's greatest artists of the 20th century, among the art circles of other master artists such as [[Oswaldo Guayasamín]] and [[Camilo Egas]].

==Background==
Kingman was born in [[Loja, Ecuador]] on February 23, 1913.<ref name=ask>[http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?artist=9001391 Eduardo Kingman (1913-1994).] ''AskArt.'' (retrieved 12 April 2009)</ref> His father, Edward Kingman, had moved to Ecuador from [[Newton, Connecticut]]. Kingman was the elder brother of journalist [[Nicolás Kingman Riofrío]].

Kingman first studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, in [[Quito]],<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=amQqAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA381 |title=Bulletin of the Pan American Union |date=1947 |publisher=The Pan American Union |volume=81 |pages=381 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> under [[Victor Mideros]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Standish |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sWkYAQAAIAAJ |title=Hispanic Culture of South America |date=1995 |publisher=[[Gale Research]] |isbn=978-0-8103-8483-5 |pages=135 |language=en}}</ref> Further studies took him to [[Venezuela]], [[Peru]], [[Bolivia]]; and finally to the [[San Francisco Art Institute]], California (from 1945 to 1946).{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}} 

==Art career==
[[File:Pinturas de Eduardo Kingman.jpg|thumb|Kingman Paintings|238x238px]]
People from the United States first became acquainted with Kingman's art in 1939, when he assisted [[Camilo Egas]] with the paintings and decorations for the Ecuadorian Pavilion at the [[1939 New York World's Fair|New York World's Fair]].

For a period of twenty years, Eduardo Kingman held the post of principal professor at Quito's Escuela de Bellas Artes (School of Fine Arts) as well as Director of the [[Museo de Arte Colonial de Quito]].<ref name=ask/> In 1940, Kingman founded the [[Caspicara Gallery]] in Quito. At this time and later his original prints and paintings were exhibited internationally in such cities as [[Paris]], [[Washington, D.C.]], [[San Francisco]], [[Mexico City]], [[Caracas]] and [[Bogotá]]. Near the end of his career, Kingman was honored with a one-man exhibition of his art at the [[United Nations]], [[New York City]].
[[File:Los Guandos (1939), óleo sobre lienzo de Eduardo Kingman Riofrío. MuNa, Quito.jpg|thumb|''Los Guandos'' (1939), oil painting. MuNa, [[Quito]].]]
The unifying theme of Kingman's [[painting]]s, [[lithography|lithographies]] and [[woodcut]]s in expressing the social realities of Ecuador's indigenous peoples. He was known as  "the painter of hands."<ref name=stolen>[http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=14089&ArticleId=322486 Colombia Police Recover Stolen Ecuador Kingman Paintings.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185722/http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=14089&ArticleId=322486 |date=2016-03-03 }} ''Latin American Herald Tribune.'' (retrieved 12 April 2009)</ref>

Kingman was also active as a writer and social activist.

He died in [[Quito]] in 1998.<ref name=ask/> Two of his paintings were stolen from the Posada de las Artes Kingman Museum in 2003 but were safely recovered.<ref name=stolen/>

==Published works==
*Albornoz, Miguel and Eduardo Kingman. ''Orellana: El Caballero de las Amazonas.'' Editorial Herrero (1965). ASIN B001FCLO4I.
*Icaza, Jorge, author. Kingman, Eduardo, illustrator. ''Huairapamushcas.'' Quito : Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1948.
*El Choclo the Corn

==See also==
*[[Culture of Ecuador]]
*[[List of Ecuadorian artists]]
*[http://laht.com/ecuador/kingmanbirthplace.jpg "Birthplace" by Eduardo Kingman]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050213093919/http://www.ecuapymes.com/kingman/ Posada de las Artes.-Kingman]

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