Francisco Zúñiga

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"Nude Young Woman I", a sculpture by Zúñiga, in the Marcy Sculpture Garden of the San Diego Museum of Art.
"Nude Young Woman I", a sculpture by Zúñiga, in the Marcy Sculpture Garden of the San Diego Museum of Art.

Francisco Zúñiga (December 27, 1912 – August 9, 1998) was a Costa Rican and Mexican artist, known both for his painting and his sculpture.[1] Journalist Fernando González Gortázar lists Zúñiga as one of the 100 most notable Mexicans of the 20th century,[2] while the Encyclopædia Britannica calls him "perhaps the best sculptor" of the Mexican political modern style.[3]

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[edit] Biography

Zúñiga was born in Costa Rica in 1912; his father, Manuel Maria Zúñiga, was also a sculptor.[4][5] He won first prize in a 1935 Latin American sculpture competition, the Salón de Escultura en Costa Rica, for his bronze sculpture La maternidad,[6] and in 1936 moved to Mexico,[7][8] where he studied art formally at La Escuela de Talla Directa, working with Guillermo Ruiz, sculptor Oliverio Martinez, and painter Manuel Rodriguez Lozano.[4] In 1938, he took a faculty position at La Esmeralda; he remained at that position until retiring in 1970.[5][7][9] In 1958 he was awarded the first prize in sculpture from the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts.[6]

Zúñiga's works have been shown widely, including displays in Los Angeles,[10] San Salvador, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Stockholm, and Toronto.[7] Museums holding his works in their permanent collections include the San Diego Museum of Art,[11] the Metropolitan Museum of Art[5] and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Ponce Museum of Art in Puerto Rico, and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Costa Rican Enrichment", Washington Post, June 18, 1993.
  2. ^ "Mis cien mexicanos del siglo XX". La Jornada, January 30, 2000.
  3. ^ Latin American art, Encyclopædia Britannica.
  4. ^ a b c Biography, Medicine Man Gallery.
  5. ^ a b c Biography on artinfo.com.
  6. ^ a b Biografia de Francisco Zúñiga, Biografias y Vidas.
  7. ^ a b c "Con su obra, Francisco Zúñiga retorna a su natal Costa Rica". La Jornada, January 15, 1999.
  8. ^ "Muere destacado escultor mexicano Francisco Zuniga". Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 14, 1998.
  9. ^ Biography, Joan Cawley gallery.
  10. ^ Francisco Zúñiga's publically displayed artworks in Los Angeles: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6].
  11. ^ May S. Marcy Sculpture Court and Garden, San Diego Museum of Art.

[edit] Books

  • Anguiano, Raúl; Moyssén Echeverría, Xavier & Sebastián, Enrique Carbajal (1998), Homenaje al maestro Francisco Zúñiga : (1912 - 1998), Academia de Artes, ISBN 968-729212-1 
  • Echeverria, Carlos Francisco (1981), Zúñiga: An Album of His Sculptures, Hacker Art Books, ISBN 978-9687047034 
  • Cardona Pena, Alfredo (1997), Francisco Zúñiga: Viaje poetico, Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, ISBN 978-9977648996 
  • Ferrero, Luis (1985), Zúñiga, Costa Rica: Colección Daniel Yankelewitz, Editorial Costa Rica, ISBN 9977231605 
  • Paquet, Marcel (1989), Zúñiga: La abstracción sensible, El Taller del Equilibrista, ISBN 9686285245 
  • Reich, Sheldon (1981), Francisco Zúñiga, Sculptor: Conversations and Interpretations, Univ. of Arizona Press, ISBN 978-0816506651 
  • Rodriguez Prampolini, Ida (2002), La obra de Francisco Zúñiga, canon de belleza americana, Sinc, S.A. de C.V / Albedrio, ISBN 978-9709027075 
  • Zúñiga, Ariel (2001), Francisco Zúñiga: Travel sketches 1, Sinc, S.A. de C.V / Albedrio, ISBN 978-9709027051 
  • Zúñiga, Ariel (1999), Francisco Zúñiga, Catalogo Razonado, Volumen I: Escultura / Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I: Sculpture (1923-1993), Sinc, S.A. de C.V / Albedrio, ISBN 978-9709027020 
  • Zúñiga, Ariel (2003), Francisco Zúñiga, Catalogo Razonado, Vol. II: Oleos, estampas y reproducciones / Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. II: Oil Paintings, prints and reproductions, Sinc, S.A. de C.V / Albedrio, ISBN 978-9709027082 
  • Zúñiga, Ariel (2007), Francisco Zúñiga Catalogo Razonado / Catalogue Raisonné Volume III (Drawings 1927–1970), Sinc, S.A. de C.V / Albedrio, ISBN 978-9709027105 
  • Zúñiga, Ariel (2007), Francisco Zúñiga Catalogo Razonado / Catalogue Raisonné Volume IV (Drawings 1971–1989), Sinc, S.A. de C.V / Albedrio, ISBN 978-9709027112 

[edit] Additional sources

  • Nieto Sua, Rosa Amparo (1983), Francisco Zúñiga and the Mexican tradition, M.A. thesis, Queens College, New York .
  • Ruiz de Icaza, Maru (1998), “Francisco Zúñiga: sus mujeres indígenas se asentaron en el ex Palacio del Arzobispo”, Actual 5 (52): 68 .
  • Sánchez Ambriz, Mary Carmen (1998), “Francisco Zúñiga, 1912-1998; In memoriam”, Siempre! 45 (2357): 61 .

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