Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Size: 54 x 45 cm (21 ¼ x 17 11/16 in.)
framed: 70.5 x 61.6 x 5.7 cm (27 ¾ x 24 ¼ x 2 ¼ in.) Medium: Oil on canvas
Mexican painter Jesús Enrique Emilio de la Helguera Espinoza, was born to spanish economist Alvaro Garcia Helguera and Maria Espinoza Escarzarga in Chihuahua, Mexico.
He lived his childhood in Mexico City and later moved to Córdoba in the state of Veracruz.
His family fled from the Mexican Revolution to Ciudad Real, Castilla la Nueva, Spain and thereafter moved to Madrid.
Jesús first gained interest in the arts during primary school and would often be found wandering the halls of the Del Prado Museum.
At the age of 14, he was admitted to the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes and later studied at the Academia de San Fernando.
Size: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.5 cm)
frame: 17 15/16 x 23 15/16 x 1 3/8 in. (45.6 x 60.8 x 3.5 cm) Medium: Translucent watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor and graphite, with graphite underdrawing
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was a French Fauvist painter, brother of Jean Dufy.
He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings.
He is noted for scenes of open-air social events.
He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces.