Xavier Gonzalez

Xavier Gonzalez was a Spanish American artist. He was born in Almeria, Spain in 1898. He lived in Argentina and Mexico for some time. In 1925, he immigrated to the United States. Xavier began his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1921 to 1923, and his uncle, Jose Arpa, studied with him there. He also studied at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City, as well as in Paris and the Far East. In 1931, Xavier became a US citizen, and in 1935, married fellow artist Ethel Edwards. His works have been displayed throughout the United States including at the Cocoran Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as in Paris, Venice, Brussels and Tokyo. He taught art at the Newcomb Memorial School of Art and was the director of the art school at Sul Ros State Teachers College. Gonzalez died of Leukemia in 1993, at the age of 94.

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