Judith Gutierrez (Babahoyo, Ecuador, 1927 - Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2003) was a well-known master Latin American painter who worked in Ecuador and Mexico.

Gutierrez studied in the School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil, Ecuador, with her teacher Caesar Andrade Faini. A great part of her life was just spent living and painting at Mexico. Gutierrez and her husband left Ecuador, feeling like political banishes, due to the military government of the time.

Some of Gutierrez’s most significant works are: Dancer’s Memory of the Artist, Book for The Blind and The Christ of Santa Elena.

Gutierrez held many individual exhibitions and is represented in many galleries and museums at New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Pasadena, Washington, Great Britain, Osaka, Guayaquil, Quito, Mexico City, Munich, Havana, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Panama, and even at Sao Paulo.

Julio Galan (December 5, 1958 – August 4, 2006) was a famous Mexican artist.

Galan was one of Latin America’s most popular neo-expressionist painters. He was first brought to international interest by Andy Warhol, who printed numerous of Galán’s works in his magazine, Interview, soon after Galán moved to New York City during 1984. There is some argument to whether Galan painted some of his paintings while under the influence of drugs.

Jose Miguel Covarrubias (November 22, 1904 — February 4, 1957) was a famous Mexican painter and caricaturist. His works and star caricatures had been characteristic in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines. The linear nature of his drawing style was highly dominant to other caricaturists such as Al Hirschfield.

He even worked as an illustrator for W.C. Handy’s publications.

Covarrubias is then well known for his analysis of pre-Colombian art of Mesoamerica, mostly that of the Olmec culture. His analysis of iconography presented a well-built case that the Olmec predated the Classic Era years before this was established by archaeology.

Arnold Belkin (1930 in Calgary, Alberta - 1992 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal) was a Mexican painter, who has frequently known as “The Canadian Son of Mexican Muralism”. Arnold’s father was a Russian Jew and his mother was an English Jewish woman (Greenberg).

In his youth he attended the Vancouver School of Art and developed a deep interest for Muralism. Choosing Muralism as his way, he determined to meet and learn in person from the great painter of Muralism at that time, the Mexicans Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Arriving in Mexico City at the age of 18 years, Belkin going to La Esmeralda Art School and the INBA School for Painting and Sculpture. He also learned modern art methods at the Jose Gutierrez’ Workshop on Materials and Plastics.

He painted in that year La Bahia de Acapulco at the Continental Hilton Hotel (damaged in the earthquake during 1985) and was named Professor of Mural Techniques at the Universidad de las Americas. His famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a moveable mural, was painted in 1959.

In the last decade of his life, Belkin’s prolific work was distinguished by great dynamism and theme innovation. He created hundreds of works, not only murals at government buildings and universities, but painted oils, acrylics and other media, plus sculpture. He died at 62.

Luis Barragán (Guadalajara, March 9, 1902 - Mexico City, November 22, 1988) is known to be the most important Mexican architect of the 20th century.

An engineer by training, he did his graduation from the Escuela Libre de Ingenieros in year 1923 and was totally self-taught as an architect. After graduation, he traveled widely in Spain, France (where he attended lectures of Le Corbusier), and at Morocco. He practiced structural design in Guadalajara from 1927-1936, and in Mexico City thereafter. In 1945 he created the planification and development plan of the Jardines Del Pedregal, and in 1955 he rebuild the historical Convento de las Capuchinas Sacramentarias in Tlalpan, both situated at the southern part of Mexico City.

In 1980, he became the second winner of the Pritzker Prize. His house and studio, build in year 1948 in Mexico City, is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Jose Baray Ramirez is the one of oldest and most experienced painter/muralist of a colony of artists in the Copper Canyon area in northwestern Mexico. Born in Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua during 1942, Baray earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) during 1969. He founded the Street Artists Guild at Mexico City as attending the university. Baray visited United States and Canada from the late 1960s and into the 1980s, showing his work and becoming well-famous in art circles.

Befriended by American painter Georgia O’Keeffe, Baray designed the well garden and laid its flagstone at her Ghost Ranch home near Abiquiu, New Mexico. Her influence could be seen in some of his paintings and murals.

Kamilo Almanza is the known to be the most creative painter and muralist of a colony of Mexican artists in the Copper Canyon area of northwestern Mexico. Almanza could be found in the studio above his home itself during late into the night. Son of a Tarahumara Indian father and a Mestizo mother, he reflects both his cultures in the paintings, sculptures and murals. Almanza works with many materials, including oils, acrylics, automotive paint, charcoal, clay, pencil, ink, and still goes on. His paintings are normally on heavy cotton paper, most of them measuring about 25″ x 19″ (63cm x 48cm).

Edward (Ted) Fenwick Zuber is a professional painter well-known for his work as a War Artist from the Canadian government. He was born in 1932 in Montreal, Quebec. He started his study in art at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, attended Queen’s University (fine arts) and apprenticed to the spiritual painter Matthew Martirano.

Throughout his experience on the Korean Front, Zuber had a sketch book with him to record the action around him. During which time he shaped many drawings and maintains a full “Sketch diary”. These pictorial records of Canada’s Korean association are chiefly precious historically, as there was no official war painter assigned to Canada’s Korean involvement. Thirteen paintings from Zuber’s “Korean War Series” are now in the set of the Canadian War Museum.

On December 17, 1991 Zuber was awarded with Kuwait and Gulf medal by Chief of the Defense Staff, General John de Chastelain. He was even awarded with the Korean Medal on November 11, in the year 1991 together with the other Canadians who served in Korea. Zuber is the only Canadian service man or woman to have both the Korean War award and the Gulf War medal.

Horatio Walker (1858-1938) was an appreciated and officially successful Canadian painter. He worked in oils and watercolors, normally depicting scenes of rural life in Canada. He was prejudiced by the French Barbizon School of painting.

Walker was born at Listowel, Ontario on May 13, 1858. In 1873 he moved to Toronto, Ontario, where he was a trainee at the photography firm of Notman and Frasier. In 1883 he moved to Rochester, New York. In 1883 he married Jeanette Pretty (d. 1938) of Toronto. He had two children, Alice (1884-1891) and Horatio Jr. (1886-1910). Walker was a member of few artists’ organizations, as well as the American Watercolor Society (1882), the Royal Canadian Academy of Art (associate member in 1883, was a full member in 1913), the Society of American Artists (1887), the National Academy of Design (associate member during 1890, full member during 1891), and the British Institute of Watercolors (1901). He was a opening member of the Canadian Art Club that elected him as its president in 1915. In 1928 he officially leaves and moved to Sainte-Pétronille, Quebec. He died there on September 27, 1938.

Walker’s awards and prizes include:

•Gold medals, American Art Gallery, New York (1887, 1889)
•Evans Prize, American Watercolor Society (1888)
•Bronze medal, World Exposition, Paris, France (1889)
•Gold medal, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois (1893)
•Gold medal, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (1901)
•Gold medal, Charleston Exposition, Charleston, South Carolina (1902)
•Two gold medals (for oil and watercolor), Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri (1904)
•Medal of honor, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1906)
•First prize, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts (1907)
•Gold medal, Pan-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California (1915)

Landscape No. 1: Mountains, B.C., circa 1934, National Gallery of Canada. Frederick Horsman Varley (January 2, 1881-September 8, 1969) is a member of the Canadian Group of Seven artists.

Varley was born in Sheffield, England in the year 1881 and studied art in Sheffield and in Belgium. He came to Canada during 1912 on the counsel of another Sheffield native, Arthur Lismer, and explored his work at Grip Ltd. He then served in the First World War and painted scenes of battle from his own experiences of the time. His major gift to art, however, was for his own work with the Group of Seven. He and Lawren Harris were the only members in that group to paint portraits.He died in Toronto in 1969.