Emilio Amero
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Emilio Ameroborn Ixtlahuaca, Mexico, 1901; died Norman, Oklahoma, 1976
Emilio Amero received most of his art training at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City along with a number of artists associated with the Mexican muralist movement. He is generally credited with the renaissance of graphic arts in Mexico starting in 1923 when he took up lithography.
After working in New York and again in Mexico, Amero moved to Seattle in 1940 to teach at Cornish School of the Arts where he later became art director. He eventually founded his own New School of Art. In 1946 he became a member of the art faculty at the University of Oklahoma.
During his lifetime Amero had ten major solo exhibitions in New York, Havana, Mexico City, Seattle, and in Norman, Oklahoma
(Source: AskArt.com, curatorial files)
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