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Shorty Working in the C & R Statuary Corp.
Rigoberto Torres American, born Puerto Rico
Not on view
Torres was a frequent collaborator of John Ahearn’s, and the two artists share a visual vocabulary. At work in the statuary factory in New York run by Torres’s uncle Raúl Arce, the tattooed and mustached Shorty intently focuses on refining a mass-produced figure of the Virgin. By taking the sculptor at work as his subject, Torres also transforms this piece into an allegorical self-portrait.
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