I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

EstabliLarry Riversd as one of America's most important postwar artists Rivers continued until his death on August 14 2002 to exhibit regularly both in the United States and abroad and to create work that combined realistically rendered images within a loosely bruLarry Riversd quasi-abstract background. The couple divorced. After that Rivers lived with Sheila Lanham a Baltimore poet.

Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City Southampton New York (on Long Island) and Zihuatanejo Mexico.