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Antonio Sánchez Araujo
Antonio Sanchez Araujo (1887- 1946) Born in Santa Lucia, Oriente, in 1887. He formally started his painting studies at the San Alejandro Academy in 1907. He continued his artistic education in Madrid, Barcelona and Paris, thanks to a 5-year scholarship granted by the Congress of the Republic, in 1918. In Paris he took lessons for three years in the Colarossi and Grande Chaumiere Academies. During his life he received several recognitions. His work was displayed in the Palace of the Cuban Senate in 1918; in Barcelona, in 1919; in the exhibits of the Association of Painters and Sculptors from 1918 to 1928; in the Otono Salon of Madrid, in 1920; in San Francisco, in 1925; in Philadelphia, in 1926 -where he won a prize with the artwork La Silla de Gibara (The Gibara’s Chair)-. He was also presented in exhibits in Baltimore and Sevilla in 1930, in Havana in 1932 and again in 1940 in the exhibit 300 Anos de Arte en Cuba (300 Years of Art in Cuba), at the University of Havana.
He was the Principal of the Free School of Fine Arts from 1926 to 1929 and also a Professor at San Alejandro School, since 1926. He cultivated, with special preference, the landscape and portrait paintings, in addition to artworks of popular kind. In Miami his work was presented in the Bacardi Gallery, in the Exhibit titled Pintura y Litografia Cubanas (Cuban Painting and Lithography), in 1988. The artist passed away in Havana, on September 13 of 1946.
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