Acrylic on canvas by Alvaro Cardona-Hine; dated 1993; entitled "Bird Totem 2"; 19 x 21; A native of Costa Rica and half brother of author Alfredo Cardona Peña, Alvaro Cardona-Hine came from a literary family. During his life he was a prolific painter, composer, and poet with seventeen published books of poetry, prose, and translation.
Cardona-Hine was the half brother of poet Alfredo Cardona Peña, and authored the English translation of Cardona Peña’s Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth (New Village Press, 2018).Born in San José, Costa Rica, he moved to the United States as a teenager and soon began studying music and the arts. In Los Angeles, Cardona-Hine formed the poetry group, the Incognoscenti, with fellow poets Gene Frumkin, Stanley Kiesel, and Fred Franklyn. In the late 60s, he began painting and met his second wife, Barbara McCauley. The pair moved to New Mexico, and in 1988, opened the Cardona-Hine Gallery in Truchas, where they were among the first artists to represent their own work outside of established galleries. Since Cardona-Hine’s passing, McCauley continues to exhibit both of their works together.

20.5 x 22 in