Felipe ORLANDO (1911-2001). 1948. GOUACHE ON PAPER. Cuban Mexican Art. Tempera.

Felipe ORLANDO (1911-2001). GOUACHE ON PAPER. 1948. Tempera. 14 x 24 in, (35.56 x 60.96 cm) FRAMED. Felipe Orlando (1911-2001), one of the distinguished members of the second generation of the Cuban Avant Garde, had a long and fruitful artistic life that spanned over fifty years of creative activity. In half a century, the artist presented over sixty one-person shows and participated in many more group exhibitions.An anthropologist as well as a painter and engraver, Orlando, whose full name was Felipe Orlando Garcia Murciano, studied at the University of Havana and at the painting workshop of Jorge Arche and Víctor Manuel. He was a founding member of the Asociación de Pintores y Escultores de Cuba (APEC) and a professor at the Universidad de las Américas and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, both in Mexico City. His renderings were displayed in major museums and prestigious venues throughout the Americas and Europe, such as The San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (1942, 1944, 1945); The National Art Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1945), The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York, NY (1944); The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (1945) The Pan American Union Museum, Washington D.C. (1946, 1950); The Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (1945); The Centre d’Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (1945); The Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (1946); the University of Havana, Cuba, and the National Capitol of Cuba, Havana (1940, 1941, 1955); the Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY (1947); The Musée National d’Art Modern, Paris, France (1951); The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1953); The Boston Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA (1953); The National Gallery of Ottawa, Canada (1954); The Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy (1953); Galería Casa de Arte & Galería El Muro, San Juan, Puerto Rico (1969, 1970, 1971); Roland de Aemille Gallery, New York, NY (1957, 1960); De Armas Gallery, Miami, FL (1978); University of California, Los Angeles, CA (1980); among others.