Manuel Garcia y Rodriguez
Seville Garden (1910). Oil on canvas. 13 in. x 28 in (image). Gilt frame. Signed.
Condition: Excellent
Description
Manuel García y Rodríguez (1863, Seville – 6 May 1925, Seville) was a Spanish costumbrista and landscape painter, who also painted Orientalist scenes. Throughout his life, he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, where he was awarded medals in 1887, 1890 and 1895. He also participated in the Exposition Universelle (1889) and the World’s Columbian Exposition. In 1899, he was named a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
In 1904, he visited Tangier and produced some paintings in Orientalist style. His works are in numerous museums (including the Carmen Thyssen Museum) and private collections. He was also a regular contributor of illustrations for the magazine Blanco y Negro. He took much of his inspiration from the city of Seville and the Guadalquivir, including the Guadaira rivers and surrounding areas. He was closely associated with the Alcalá de Guadaira school of painting. In his final years, he focussed on the gardens, patios and parks of Seville, at which time he developed more of a modernist and impressionist aesthetic
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