Pablo O'Higgins

As a young child Pablo O'Higgins (born Paul Higgins Stevenson) moved to San Diego from his native Utah. At the age of 18 he began studying art at the San Diego Art Academy. In 1924 Diego Rivera invited him to Mexico where he lived for the next four years joining the Mexican Communist party and embracing the social causes of his adopted home country. In 1931 he received a grant to study in Moscow for a year but thereafter returned to Mexico City. O’Higgins was one of the founding members of the Taller Grafica Popular (Popular Graphics Workshop) and created several large scale murals in addition to his other paints and prints. He died in Mexico City while working on a mural for the University of Colima.

(Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940")