The following information was submitted in June of 2006 by Norman Davies, California book collector and art historian.

Marco Antonio Gomez "Tony" was born in Durango, Mexico in 1910. He was 8 years old when the family moved to Ashfork, Arizona. His father was a recognized portrait painter. Young Tony was raised among paint pots and canvases and one day had encroached upon his father's creative endeavors with a misplaced brush stroke. His father initially gave his son paints and canvas with the admonition: "You paint your pictures and let me paint mine", or words to that effect. Later his father taught him. Much of the artist's work springs from his background in mountainous northern Arizona. ...