biography of Camilo EGAS (1899-1962)

Birth place: Quito, Ecuador

Addresses: NYC; Orwigsburg, PA

Profession: Painter, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, teacher

Studied: Academia de las Bellas Artes, Ecuador; Royal Inst. des Beaux-Arts, Rome; San Fernando Academia de Bellas Artes, Madrid.

Exhibited: Salon d'Automne, Salon de Tuileries, Salon des Independents, all in Paris; Galeria Nacional de Rome; Salon del Retiro, Madrid; AIC, 1947. Awards: fellowships to Rome and Paris from Ecuador; prize, Int. Exh., Quito.

Work: MModA; Newark Mus. Art; IBM; Nat. Mus., Ecuador; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; murals, WFNY 1939; New School for Social Research, NY; Jijon Lib., Quito.

Comments: Position: director, art dept., New Sch. Social Research, NYC