Miguel Gomez - Artist Info

About Miguel Gomez

  • Biography

    Miguel Angel Gomez was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador on December 24, 1906. Gomez studied lithography at the Guyayas Philanthropic Society of Guayaquil. He worked for 36 years as a cartoonist for El Universo in Ecuador. He appears to have moved to southern California about 1980 and died in Burbank on January 9, 1994. He often signed his paintings and cartoons with the pseudonym, Montanola and is sometimes listed as Miguel Angel Gomez Cruz.

    Source: Edan Hughes, author of the book "Artists in California, 1786-1940"


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