Emilio Sanchez
Sanchez was born in 1921 in the city of Camaguey, and it was there that he received his public schooling. In the late 1930's he traveled to New York to study painting and printmaking at the Art Students League. An institution of which he
had heard much in Cuba. He then decided to settle in Manhattan, and eventually he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Finding the atmosphere of Cuba unbearable since the coming of the Castro regime, he has made no trips to the island since
1960.
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anchez has had only two exhibits in Cuba-one-man shows held in 1956 and 1959 at the Havana Lyceum. He has never taken part in collective exhibitions in the land of his birth. His first appearance elsewhere in Latin America was a one-man show at t
he Ateneo Gallery in Mexico City in 1951. He has made four individual appearances in the Colombian cities of Bogota and Cali and one at the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas. He made his European debut at the Bernheim Jeune Gallery in Paris in 1953. In 1964
he had a one-man show at the Fortuny Gallery in Madrid. He has taken part in group exhibits in Basel and Cologne. All told, to date Sanchez has had fifty-three one-man shows and has participated in fifty group presentations, chiefly in the continental Uni
ted States and Puerto Rico. As might be expected, his most frequent appearances have been in New York City, his place of residence. Paintings and prints by Sanchez form part of numerous public and private collections. In New York they can be found at th
e Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, and the Chase-Manhattan Bank. In Washington, D C., they are to be seen at the Hirshhorn Museum and the Corcoran Gallery and in the Rosenwald Collecti
on of the National Gallery of Art. Elsewhere in the United States they figure in the collections of museums in Minneapolis, Wilmington (Delaware), Buffalo, Tulsa, San Antonio, and Austin. Abroad they are to be found in the National Museum in Havana, in th
e Museum of Modern Art and the Arango Library in Bogota, in the La Tertulia Museum in Cali, and in far-away Canberra at the National Gallery of Australia.