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1858 Carmona, Spain - 1952 Seville, Spain. Known for: Landscape, portrait, and mural painting, etching, educator.
Born in Carmona, Spain, José Arpa y Perea was known as "The Colorist Painter" of figures and landscapes, especially in Texas where he brought a fresh approach to San Antonio painting in his bright,... Read full biography
Born in Carmona, Spain, José Arpa y Perea was known as "The Colorist Painter" of figures and landscapes, especially in Texas where he brought a fresh approach to San Antonio painting in his bright, sunlit local scenes. He was also an etcher, illustrator, and muralist as well as an art teacher, and... Read full biography
Born in Carmona, Spain, José Arpa y Perea was known as "The Colorist Painter" of figures and landscapes, especially in Texas where he brought a fresh approach to San Antonio painting in his bright, sunlit local scenes. He was also an etcher, illustrator, and muralist as well as an art teacher, and he started and ended his career in Spain. His subjects include the Grand Canyon of Arizona. He began his art study as the pupil of Eduardo Cano de la Pena at the Academy of Fine Arts in Seville and... Read full biography
Born in Carmona, Spain, José Arpa y Perea was known as "The Colorist Painter" of figures and landscapes, especially in Texas where he brought a fresh approach to San Antonio painting in his bright, sunlit local scenes. He was also an etcher, illustrator, and muralist as well as an art teacher, and he started and ended his career in Spain. His subjects include the Grand Canyon of Arizona. He began his art study as the pupil of Eduardo Cano de la Pena at the Academy of Fine Arts in Seville and then spent six years in Rome followed by extensive travel through Africa and Europe. His reputation was solid enough that the Spanish government sent four of his paintings as part of the exhibition to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.... Read full biography
Born in Carmona, Spain, José Arpa y Perea was known as "The Colorist Painter" of figures and landscapes, especially in Texas where he brought a fresh approach to San Antonio painting in his bright, sunlit local scenes. He was also an etcher, illustrator, and muralist as well as an art teacher, and he started and ended his career in Spain. His subjects include the Grand Canyon of Arizona. He began his art study as the pupil of Eduardo Cano de la Pena at the Academy of Fine Arts in Seville and then spent six years in Rome followed by extensive travel through Africa and Europe. His reputation was solid enough that the Spanish government sent four of his paintings as part of the exhibition to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1894, as an illustrator, he accompanied a Spanish army expedition to Morocco where the Spanish had been... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •South America
- •Texas Before 1940
Art Association
- •Salons of America
- •Society of Independent Artists-
- •Southern States Art League
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Prix de Rome Prize
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Bill and Mary Cheek Collection
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Expedition Artist of Drawings, Paintings, and/or Photographs
- •Mural Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Edgar B Davis Competition, Texas
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Salons of America-
- •San Antonio Art League
- •Society of Independent Artists--