Mexican1887–1918
Saturnino Herrán
A painter from Aguascalientes who studied at the Academy of San Carlos and devoted his short career to Mexican people and traditions. In 1910 he and José Clemente Orozco staged an exhibition of art they called purely Mexican, and his work became a model for the muralists of the 1920s and 1930s. He died in 1918, aged 31.
A life in paintings
- 1887Born
- 1913
- 1918Died
Circles
School · Mexico City · 1781
Academy of San Carlos
Mexico's national art academy (later the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes). Landesio taught landscape there 1855–1873; Velasco studied there and taught perspective (1868–1902) and landscape (from 1877); Herrán studied there from 1904 under Fabrés, Gedovius and Ruelas; Ramos Martínez studied there on a scholarship and was its director by 1913.
Source: Wikipedia
Where to see them
Museo Nacional de Arte
Mexico City
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