biography of Alfredo RAMOS MARTINEZ (1871-1946)

Birth place: Monterey, Mexico

Death place: Los Angeles, CA

Addresses: Los Angeles, CA, 1929-46

Profession: Painter, muralist

Studied: School of FA, Mexico City; Europe (six years).

Exhibited: Calif.- Pac. Int'l Expo., San Diego, 1935; GGE, 1939; AIC, 1935, 1940, 1942.

Work: Serra Hist. Mus., San Diego, CA; CPLH; Mount Carmel Church, Montecito, Calif.; fresco, Scripps Col., Claremont, Calif; stained glass windows, paintings, St. John's Church, Los Angeles; Yale Univ.; Univ. of Texas.

Comments: Established Mexico's free outdoor art schools. Specialty: portraits, murals, Mexican peasant genre.

Sources: Hughes, Artists in California, 359.