Education Academy of San Carlos | Role Artist Name Xavier Gonzalez | |
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Born 1898 Almeria, Spain Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
Artist Xavier Gonzalez d'Egara SMASHING UP Imitate Modern Gallery
Xavier González d' Ègara - The Three Seasons
Xavier Gonzalez (1898 – 1993) was an American artist. He was born in Almeria, Spain. He lived in Argentina and Mexico for some time, planning to become an engineer in a gold mine. In 1925, he immigrated to the United States.
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- Artist Xavier Gonzalez dEgara SMASHING UP Imitate Modern Gallery
- Xavier Gonzlez d gara The Three Seasons
- Education
- Works
- Murals
- References
Education
Gonzalez began his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1921 to 1923, and his uncle, José Arpa, studied with him there. He also studied at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City, as well as in Paris and the Far East. In 1931, Gonzalez became a US citizen, and in 1935 he married fellow artist Ethel Edwards (1915-1999) who was a student of his at Newcomb College. He often worked and studied with fellow artist Julius Woeltz, who was the best man at his wedding. Gonzales commandeered the canteen wall at Newcomb for the use of his art students.
Works
Gonzalez's works have been displayed throughout the United States including at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as in Paris, Venice, Brussels and Tokyo. He taught art at Tulane University, the Brooklyn Museum, Case Western Reserve University, and the Newcomb Memorial School of Art, and was the director of the art school at Sul Ross State Teachers College, in Alpine, Texas. In 1953, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1955. He illustrated a children's book called "He Who Saw Everything, The Epic of Gilgamesh" by Anita Feagles (copy written 1966).
Gonzalez died of leukemia in 1993, at the age of 94, at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, New York City.
Murals
His wife, Ethel Edwards painted 2 murals; one titled Life on the Lake in 1942 at the Lake Providence, Louisiana post office and the other, titled Afternoon on a Texas Ranch, completed in 1941 at the Lampasas, Texas post office.