El Mexicano-Americano Ayer, Ahora, (Part 1 and 2)

Artist: Campero, Armando

Medium: Unknown (possibly oil on canvas)

County Department: Public Library

Current Status: Deaccessioned

About the Artwork: This artwork was deaccessioned and is no longer on view. 

About the Artist: Armando Campero was born in Mexico and attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Art in Mexico City, where one of his instructors was the legendary Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He later received a scholarship to attend the Fine Arts School in Chicago and he also studied in New York and Paris. Returning to Mexico City in the early 1950s, he worked for two years on Diego Rivera’s Lerma Tunnel project and taught at the Institute of Interior Decorators. He came to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s and since then has divided his time between Los Angeles and Mexico. He was one of the first artists to paint murals in East Los Angeles and was a political cartoonist for 15 years for the Spanish language newspaper, La Opinión. In addition to his Los Angeles works, he has completed murals in Chicago, St. Louis, Spain, France, Mexico, and Guatemala.