ORIGINAL Painting Vintage Watercolor Mexican Folk Art Framed SIGNED By Artist

Original watercolor painting (one of three listed). Signed by Mexican artist Tiburcio Ortiz (bio below). Dated 1984. Watercolor and Ink on Paper. Mounted behind glass in silver metal frame. Detailed and colorful depiction of indigenous Oaxacan women and child in a relaxed scene. SIZE: Frame measures 13 1/4” by 16 1/4” (painting is 10” x 13”). Each painting sold and shipped separately (due to weight and fragility). Tiburcio Ortiz (1945): Born in Santa Catarina Chinango, Oaxaca in 1945. He attended the Academia de San Carlos from 1966 and until 1970 studying with Manuel Silva Gerrero, Alberto de la Vega and Elizabeth Catlett. After 1970, he worked at the Taller Experimental in San Carlos and a year later started working for Anastasio Nequiz in Chimalhuacán. After graduating, he became a professor at the Taller de Escultura in San Carlos and other institutions. In 1981 Ortiz collaborated with other famous artists to make the mural at the Palacio Legislativo in Mexico City. His work, as many of his Oaxacan contemporaries shows the magic and culture of this ancestral Indian land. His most notable exhibitions are "Esculturas y proyectos" (1973), at the Galería José María Velasco at INBA; Ivy Gallery, in Los Ángeles, California (1989); Grayhome Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona (1996); Gallery Crashing Tender (1998), Gallup, Nuevo Mexico; and "Na-Ii Yuu Ka-Ah: gente de piedra que habla" (2002), Instituto Mora, Mexico City.