Born Yaguajay, Cuba, 1896. Died Havana, 1968
Amelia Pelaez entered San Alejandro at the relatively late age of twenty, graduating with honors in 1924, At San Alejandro she was one of Romañach's leading students in the areas of drawing, color, and landscape.
The year of her graduation she and her colleague Maria Pepa Lamarque held a two-person show at the Association of Painters and Sculptors in Havana, where Pelaez exhibited a series of romantic landscapes typical of her early work. In the summer of I924 she visited New York on a travel grant and studied at the Arts Student League for six months... break away from institutionalized teaching. He rebelled against many modern trends in his art, and considered himself more of an Expressionist than an Abstract artist...
Gouache on cardboard
21 ½ in. x 28 in.
Signed and dated lower left
Certification: Fundacion Arte Cubana