Teodulo Jiménez
Period: Early Republic
1879 - 1940

Palm Trees in the Watercourse
Palmar en la Cañada, ca. 1910
oil on canvas
12 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches

Cuban landscape artist Teódulo Jiménez (1879-1940) began his artistic development at the age of fourteen at San Alejandro Academy, where he received excellent marks for several years and earned a number of academic distinctions. The outstanding disciple of Valentín Sanz Carta carried on his instructor’s landscape style, to the extent that his works were often mistaken for his mentor’s originals. The likeness is visible in such paintings as Palmar en la Cañada, c. 1910, a rare example of a signed work by this enigmatic artist.


Ramón Cernuda