| LC control no. | n 50036271 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Obregón, Alejandro, 1920-1992 |
| Associated place | Concord (Mass.) Lancashire (England) Boston (Mass.) Bogotá (Colombia) Alba-La Romaine (France) |
| Birth date | 1920-06-04 |
| Death date | 1992-04-11 |
| Place of birth | Barcelona (Spain) |
| Place of death | Cartagena (Colombia) |
| Affiliation | Stonyhurst College Middlesex School (Concord, Mass.) Fábrica de Textiles Obregón Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Escuela de Bellas Artes Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. School |
| Profession or occupation | Artist Viceconsul Professor |
| Found in | Fundación Eugenio Mendoza. Exposición de Alejandro Obregón, 1966. Obregón, 1994: p. 11 (Alejandro Obregón) p. 135 (died either 1991 or 1992) Alejandro Obregón, c1992: p. 249 (b. June 4, 1920, Barcelona) p. 255 (d. Apr. 11, 1992, Cartagena, Colombia) Obregón, 2011: spine (Alejandro Obregón) page 317, etc. (born June 4, 1920 in Barcelona; apellido materno: Rosés; moved with his family to Barranquilla in 1926 and then they returned to Barcelona in 1929; studied at Stonyhurst College (Lancashire, England; 1930-1934); went to high school in Boston (1934-1936) and the Middlesex School with classes at The Museum of Fine Arts School in Concord, Massachusetts (1939-1940); worked in the Fábrica de Textiles Obregón in Barranquilla (1936-1938); viceconsul to Barcelona (1940-1944); in 1944 he returned to Colombia where he became a professor at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá until 1949; in 1950 he lived in Alba-La Romaine, France; moved to Barranquilla in 1955; died April 11, 1992 in Cartagena) Encyclopedia.com website, January 8, 2020: (Alejandro Obregón; born June 4, 1920 in Barcelona; died April 11, 1992; Colombian artist) <https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/obregon-alejandro-1920-1992> Museum of Modern Art website, January 8, 2020: (Alejandro Obregón; born 1920; died 1992) <https://www.moma.org/artists/4369> |
| Associated language | spa |
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