1889 — 1957. A landscape painter. He studied with Gilberto García and entered the old Academia de San Carlos, where he was a pupil of the Spaniard Antonio Fabrés; in 1913, with Alfredo Ramos Martínez heading the Academy, he lived through its turn towards a naturalism of direct observation. He first exhibited in 1915 and the following year showed seventy-three canvases, fifty-seven of which sold. He painted the Valley of Mexico, its lakes and its villages, and the Museo Nacional de Arte lists him in its catalogue.
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In 1930 Carlos Mérida reviewed his decorative drawings on folk motifs.
60 x 100 cm
Oil on canvas
1917
52 x 82 cm
Oil on canvas
ca.1900
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