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Raúl Anguiano

Also known as: Raúl Anguiano; primary name: Anguiano, Raúl
Details: individual; printmaker; Mexican; Mexican; Male
Life dates: 1915-2006
Biography: Text from Dawn Adès and Alison McClean, 'Revolution on Paper, Mexican Prints 1910-1960', with the assistance of Laura Campbell, BMP, 2009 Raúl Anguiano grew up in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, where from 1927 he studied painting and sculpture at the local art school (Escuela Libre de Pintura). In 1934 he moved to Mexico City and a year later taught at an art school, La Esmeralda, which he eventually left in 1967. He spent two years (1940-41) in Cuba and the United States, including a three-month stay in New York to study at The Art Students League. His first solo exhibition was in 1936, the year in which he became General Secretary of the syndicate of art teachers. During the 1940s his prints were included in a number of exhibitions, and in 1949 he exhibited seventy-seven drawings and lithographs at the Sala de la Estampa of the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Throughout his career he won national and international prizes for his work and exhibited in many countries including Chile, the USSR, France, Italy and Cuba. In 1937 Anguiano became a member of the LEAR and a year later he was one of the first artists to join the TGP. His print of Emiliano Zapata was the first to be printed by the TGP in 1938. He contributed to TGP publications and exhibitions until 1960, when he left the collective. At the TGP he made and published a series of six lithographs on the subject of popular Mexican sayings. From 1948 he was also associated with the Sociedad para el Impulso de las Artes Plásticas (Society for the Mobilization of the Visual Arts). In 1949 Anguiano set off on an expedition to the Mayan ruins of Bonampak, an archaeological site in southern Mexico, close to the Guatemalan border, where he drew the ancient structures, the people and the customs of the Lacondón Indians. During the 1960s he visited Europe and the Middle East. In addition to printmaking, Anguiano was also a painter and a muralist. He painted murals in Mexico City including at the Museum of Anthropology, and in 1950 he collaborated with José Chávez Morado to make a portable mural for an architecture congress in Cuba.

2 related objects

print; portfolio

Title: Hornos de cal Mexican people |
Museum number: 2008,7069.1.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:Raúl AnguianoPublished by:Associated American Artists |
Production date: 1946

print

Title: Por eso los hacen pandos...por que los montan tiernitos |
Museum number: 2008,7114.12 |
Producer name: BIOG181468 Print made by:Raúl Anguiano |
Production date: 1939

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