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Variants
- Rafael Tufiño, 1922-2008
- Tufiño Figueroa, Rafael, 1922-2008
- Figueroa, Rafael Tufiño, 1922-2008
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1922-10-16
Death Date
- 2008-03-13
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1967
- Affiliation End: 1973
- Organization: Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1966
- Affiliation End: 1968
- Organization: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1957
- Affiliation End: 1963
- Organization: Puerto Rico. División de Educación de la Comunidad
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1937
- Affiliation End: 1938
- Organization: Academia Nacional de San Carlos (Mexico)
Birth Place
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Printmaking
Occupation
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Sources
- found: Exposición retrospectiva de la obra gráfica de Rafael Tufiño ... 1974:t.p. (Rafael Tufiño) p. 3 (b. 1922, Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- found: New York times WWW site, Mar. 18, 2008(in obituary published Mar. 17: Rafael Tufiño; b. in Brooklyn; d. Thursday [Mar. 13, 2008], San Juan [P.R.], aged 85; painter and printmaker considered one of Puerto Rico's most prominent cultural figures)
- found: Wikipedia, Apr. 23, 2013(Rafael Tufiño Figueroa; born October 16, 1922 Brooklyn, N.Y.; died March 13, 2008 in Condado, P.R.; was a Puerto Rican painter, printmaker and cultural figure in Puerto Rico, known locally as the "Painter of the People". His work is among the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the U.S. Library of Congress, the Galería Nacional in Puerto Rico, and the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico)
- found: Artist Directory. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Viewed July 14, 2022:(Rafael Tufiño ; b. in New York, U.S.A.,1922 ; San Juan, P.R., 2008. Printmaker, painter, illustrator, muralist and draftsman. Of Puerto Rican parents, he came to the island as a child, and began his art training with Alejandro Sánchez Felipe and Juan Rosado. He studied printmaking and mural technique at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico. He cofounded the Center for Puerto Rican Art in 1950 and painted his monumental work "La plena" (1952-1954) which was exhibited for many years at the Fine Arts Center in Santurce and which now graces the walls of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. From 1952 to 1967 he worked at the Printmaking Workshop of the Community Education Division and then founded the Puerto Rican Workshop ("Taller Boricua") in New York (1970-1974). He was awarded numerous distinctions, such as the Guggenheim Fellowship (1954), with which he produced the portfolio entitled "El café" --the first one created by a single artist in Puerto Rico--, the National Culture Award of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (1987), and in 2013 the city named 103rd Street in Harlem in New York as the "Rafael Tufiño Way". He was a tireless creator and one of the artists who truly represented the best Puerto Rican tradition of printmaking. Although he favored the figurative style, he also explored others such as abstraction, but always with particular attention to design and to achieve harmony among all the plastic elements in his work.) - https://www.mapr.org/en/museum/proa/artist/tufino-rafael
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Change Notes
- 1981-01-15: new
- 2022-10-13: revised
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