Old Geometric Painting by Lincoln Presno

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Old Geometric Painting by Lincoln Presno
Artwork dimensions: 20″ x 13″
Framed dimensions: 27″ x 19″

Lincoln Presno (1917-1991)
Artist born in Montevideo on January 6, 1917.
He studied drawing and painting at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Circle) with Professor Guillermo Laborde from 1933 to 1934 and with the master Joaquín Torres García from 1945 to 1947.
He undertook art training trips to Brazil (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) in 1957; to the USA in 1964 and 1969; several trips to Argentina; and to Chile and Peru in 1959. and to Paraguay in 1964.
He created sixty murals using various techniques (fresco, tempera, Byzantine mosaic, Venetian mosaic, marble chips and pebbles, and metals such as aluminum, copper, and bronze), among which the following murals stand out: “Horizontal Buildings” (at the corner of Larrañaga and Av. Italia; Solano Antuña and Pedro Berro); “General Inspection of the Air Force” (Mendoza, Argentina); “Club Banco República Building,” etc.
He designed and oversaw the construction of the monument to President John F. Kennedy, erected in the Province of La Pampa, Municipality of Quemú Quemú (Argentina). This 40-meter-high cement monument, located at the intersection of Routes 1 and 12, was inaugurated on May 29, 1967.
He died in Montevideo (Uruguay) in 1991.