Jose Maria De Servin Mexican Modernist Artist Original Signed; image of a colorful horse; SUL; 29.5 x 18.5, 30 x 20" framed.
Servin (1917-1983 ) was a Mexican muralist born in the state of Michoacán. He escaped with his family during the early 1920s Cristero War, which plagued central and western Mexico, to Guadalajara, Jalisco. He worked with José Clemente Orozco on several murals in and around Guadalajara and had his first solo exhibition there in 1940. He became a prominent member of the artist collectives Pintores Jovenes Jalisco and Grupo Evolucion both based in Guadalajara in the 1930s-50s. Servin also taught as a fine art professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and made murals in Phoenix, Arizona, and Tijuana and Monterrey, Mexico.

30 x 20 in

8 lb