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Raúl Valadez Anguiano
Raúl Valadez Anguiano
Raúl Valadez Anguiano

Raúl Valadez Anguiano

born Guadalajara, Mexico, 1915; died Mexico City, Mexico, 2006
BiographyRaul Anguiano started drawing cubist pictures at the age of 5, using movie stars as his first models. He studied at Guadalajara’s Open Air Art School from 1927 until moving to Mexico City in 1934. There he began teaching in primary schools and at the National Autonomous University (UNAM). In 1937 he joined the Revolutionary Writers and Artists League and helped found the Taller Grafica Popular (Popular Graphics Workshop) with Alfredo Zalce and Pablo O'Higgins where artists practiced a graphic style based on Mexico's folk traditions. Just before his death he completed a large mural for East Los Angeles College, California depicting the history of Mexican art. During his lifetime he participated in more than 100 exhibitions in Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, United States, France, Italy, the former Soviet Union, Israel, Germany and Japan.

(Source: Obituary in "The Independent" February 8, 2006 and AskArt.com)


Person TypeIndividual
Terms
  • Guadalajara
  • Ciudad de México
Pablo O'Higgins
born Salt Lake City, Utah, 1904; died Mexico City, Mexico, 1983
Ángel Bracho
born Mexico City, Mexico, 1911; died Mexico City, Mexico, 2005
Alfredo Zalce
born Pátzcuaro, Mexico, 1908; died Morelia, Mexico, 2003
Francisco Mora
born Michoacán, Mexico, 1922; died Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2002
Fernando Castro Pacheco
born Mérida, Mexico, 1918; died Mérida, Mexico, 2013
Isidoro Ocampo
born Veracruz, Mexico, 1910; died Mexico City, Mexico, 1983
Francisco Dosamantes
born Mexico City, Mexico, 1911; died Mexico City, Mexico, 1986
Alberto Beltrán
born Mexico City, Mexico, 1923; died Mexico City, Mexico, 2002
Adolf Dehn
born Waterville, Minnesota, 1895; New York, New York, 1968
Luis Quintanilla
born Santander, Spain, 1893; died Madrid, Spain, 1978