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An example of work by Edward Arcenio (Eduardo) Chavez
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from Windham Fine Arts:
|  Edward Chavez (1917-1995) is definitely an important part of American
art history, working through the depression as one of the more
successful WPA muralists, then for the U.S. Army painting murals in
mess halls during off duty hours, finally becoming one of many artists
to call Woodstock home in the years after World War II.
In 1951 Chavez won a Fulbright Grant allowing him and his wife, artist
Jenne Magafan, to paint in Italy for the year. Through the
fifties and sixties Chavez remained on the cutting edge of the art
scene until the op-art movement redirected popular opinion.
Chavez's work is in the permanent collections of the Library of
Congress Print Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Hirshorn Collection,
and Detroit Museum of Art to name a few.
The colors and shapes of his art are planted firmly in his native New
Mexico, creating haunting images from Chavez's youth, but with a twist
that is decidedly ahead of his time.
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