Career
Delphic Studios of New York (head of Emiliano Zapata); National Preparatory School of Mexico City (collection of murals, including “Burial of a Worker”); also exhibition at the Spanish Casino of Mexico City, 1932. Principal Officer in Carranza’s army, 1910-1916. Military attaché in Paris, 1917. Issued the manifesto launching the Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters, and Sculptors which emphasized the revolutionary-social theme in art, 1922.
Commissioned to decorate one of the staircases of the National Preparatory School of Mexico City, 1923. Worked with Amado de la Cueva on the decorations of the State University of Guadalajara. Member of the Mexican revolutionary movement.
Political prisoner in the Federal District, 1924-1930. Representative of various Mexican workers’ organizations to Soviet Russia, 1928. Delegate to workers’ meetings in South America, 1929.
Exiled to Taxco for political reasons, 1931. Professor in the Chouinard School of Art, Los Angeles, California, 1932-1933. Developed new technical processes for outdoor murals including the use of air brushes to apply paint.
Commissioned to decorate private residence in Argentina, 1933. Exhibitions: Delphic Studios of New York (head of Emiliano Zapata). National Preparatory School of Mexico City (collection of murals, including “Burial of a Worker”).
Also exhibition at the Spanish Casino of Mexico City, 1932. Principal Works: Frescos: “Workers’ Meeting” in the Chouinard School, “Tropical America,” in the Plaza Art Center, Los Angeles, California, and in the residence of Dudley Murphy, also of Los Angeles. Murals in the National Preparatory School of Mexico City and in the State University of Guadalajara.
In addition some one hundred small canvases painted during imprisonment and exile.