Biografie von Francisco ZUÑIGA (1912-1998)

Birth place: San Jose, Costa Rica

Addresses: Mexico City, Mexico

Profession: Sculptor

Exhibited: Third Sculpture Int., Phila. Mus. Art, 1949; Expos F. Zuniga, Mus. Nac., San Jose, Costa Rica, 1954; Kunst Mexikaner, Köln, Germany, 1959; Expos Zuniga, FA Gals. San Diego & Phoenix Art Mus., 1971; Galeria Tasende, Guerrero, Mexico, 1970s. Awards: Primer Escultura, Costa Rica, Expos Art Centro Americano, 1935; premio for Diego Rivera, Second Biennial Inter-Am. Art, 1960; premio adquisicion Inst. Nac. Bellas Artes.

Work: Middelhiem Mus., Antwerpen, Belgium; Fogg Art Mus., Cambridge, MA; FA Gals. San Diego, CA; Mus Arte Mod., Mexico City, Mexico; Phoenix (AZ)Art Mus. Commissions: mMonument, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, 1958; Monument to a Cuauhtemoc, Quito, Ecuador, 1961; Fuentes Monumentales, Chapultepec, Mexico City, 1962; reliefs, Edigicio Secretaria de Communicaciones; Estatua a Benito Juarez, Gobierno de Michoacan, Morelia, MI

Comments: Preferred media: bronze, marble.

Sources: WW73; Rosa Gonzales, Dictionnaire de la Sculpture Moderne (Paris, 1960); Ali Chumxcero, Zuniga (Misrachi, Mexico, 1969); Toby Joysmith, Zuniga (FA Gals. San Diego, 1971).

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