Jose Herrerilla Cruz Herrera (1890 - 1972). Spanish. Gouache on Paper. Measure 30 1/2"in H x 22 3/4"in W and 41 1/2"in H x 33 1/2"in W with frame . Jose Cruz Herrera was a Spanish painter who concentrated principally on genre works and landscape art. He worked in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, France and especially Morocco, where he lived for much of his life in Casablanca. Many of his works are displayed at the Museo Cruz Herrera in his home town of La Lenea de la Concepcion . Cruz Herrera's grandparents originally lived in Ca¡diz, where they operated a lithographic press. Their skills were in demand in British-ruled Gibraltar, where snuff was manufactured and sold in envelopes. To meet the demand for printed envelopesHe died on 11 August 1972 in Casablanca but his remains were transferred back to La Le­nea to be buried there. The Museo Cruz Herrera was planned some years before he died, when in 1970 the council of La Lenea agreed to open a municipal museum of painting dedicated to the painter. It was opened on 6 April 1975, located on the central Plaza de Farias. The museum presents 201 of Cruz Herrera's works, organised in four rooms under the headings "First epoch", "Andalusian", "Arab" and "Anthology." and packaging labels, they moved their press to Gibraltar. They were unable to live there, as it required special permission, so they settled in the Spanish-ruled town of La Le­nea de la Concepcion on the border with Gibraltar and walked across the frontier each day to operate their press. In 1889, Cruz Herrera's father, Jose de la Cruz Garcia, married a local woman -year-old Antonia Herrera Rami­rez, the niece of La Lenea's first mayor and was himself mayor of the town for a short time. Eight months later on 1 October 1890, Cruz Herrera was born as the first of seven children and was named after his grandfather, who like his father was also named Jose. He was given the birthname of Jose Maria Remigio.

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