Francisco Cornejo

José Francisco "Pancho" Candelario Cornejo (* 2. February 1892 in La Paz , Mexico , † September 1963 in Mexico) was a Mexican painter , sculptor , advertising and commercial artist .

Life

Facade decoration at the Mayan Theater , Los Angeles

Detail of the facade at the Mayan Theater

Francisco Cornejo was the son of Carlos Candelario Cornejo and Carlota Canalizo. He studied from 1909 to 1911 at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City with Germán Gedovius .

Working in California

After graduating, he went to California in 1911 .

In Los Angeles he opened the "Estudio Azteca" (" Aztec Studio") and from 1925 taught ancient American art for teachers at the Mexicó drawing school in San Francisco .

In 1919 he created the "Xōchitl" design at the Denishawn Ballet and designed other interiors in the Indian style. One of his best-known works is the Indian facade decoration at the Mayan Theater in downtown Los Angeles , where he also designed part of the interior. The theater itself was completed in 1927 based on a design by the architect Stiles O. Clements .

Most recently he worked in Los Angeles as head of the advertising department of the Huasteca Petroleum Company founded by Edward L. Doheny in 1906.

El Rancho del Artista, Mexico City

After returning to his home country in 1937, he opened an artists 'village complex called "El Rancho del Artista" ("The Artists' Ranch"), where numerous well-known artists frequented, including Dr. Atl , Diego Rivera , Jorge González Camarena , David Alfaro Siqueiros , José Clemente Orozco , José Miguel Covarrubias , Enrique González Martínez and Andrés Audiffred . Ismael Rodríguez shot the comedy Dos tipos de cuidado (1953; English title: Two Careful Fellows ) there. Exhibitions and Mexican folklore festivals were held regularly in the local gallery. In 1988 Ramón Valdiosera Berman devoted an entire chapter to the artists' village in his work on Francisco Eppens Helguera , who also frequented the area. From Acapulco originating Nora Tarrac (1920-1988), a then sought-after model and wife of 22 years old from Barcelona coming sculptor Àngel Tarrach stood here for a group of painters in the garden model. The restaurant also served as a postcard motif.

With the expansion of the Avenida Coyoacán in the Colonia del Valle to an urban expressway (“Eje Vial”), the popular “Rancho del Artista” with the house number 957, which was known to the United States , was and still was used by many tour operators, disappeared was continued after Cornejo's death.

Exhibitions

He exhibited his artistic work, which was influenced by the art of the Maya and Aztecs, in Mexico City, at Stanford University , at the California School of Fine Arts and in Los Angeles.

Awards

• 1928: Gold Medal for the Planning and Design of the Mexican Building, Pacific Southwest Exposition , Long Beach , California

literature

• Rodolfo Lozada, Ernesto García Cabral : Corrido del pintor Pancho Cornejo. Monos de Cabral. Universidad de Guanajuato , 1945, (Spanish) ( limited preview in Google Book search)
• Francisco Díaz de León : Guadalupe Posada y Pancho Cornejo . In: Bellas Artes , No. 7, 1957 (Spanish) bellasartes.gob.mx (PDF)
• Cornejo, Pancho . In: Heriberto García Rivas: Pintores mexicanos . Mexico 1965.

Web links

• Michael Nungesser: Cornejo, Pancho . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 21, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22761-2 , p. 230.
• Facade of the Mayan Theater, Los Angeles

Individual evidence

1. ^ De tristeza murió Pancho Cornejo , Jueves de Excelsior, September 26, 1963.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Francisco Cornejo Guache Indian Chief ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), Biographical information on an image description. 
3. ↑ Rogelio Agrasánchez jun. : Guillermo Calles: A Biography of the Actor and Mexican Cinema Pioneer. McFarland 2010. p. 3. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
4. ↑ Xōchitl: Nahuatl for flower ; see also: xōchitl ( Wiktionary ).
5. ↑ The Mayan Revival Style & Theaters: Applied Ornamentation Continued ; in: Cuadernos de Arquitectura Mesoamericana (PDF) No. 9 January 1987. P. 74.
6. ↑ Leticia López Orozco: Salvador Almaraz y su epopeya mura , Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas , p. 87.
7. ↑ Dos tipos de cuidado in the Internet Movie Database (English).
8. ↑ Old Mexico Still Exists At El Rancho del Artista ; in: Beaver Valley Times, August 15, 1955. p. 8.
9. ↑ Ramón Valdiosera: Francisco Eppens: el hombre, su arte y su tiempo , Coordinación de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , 1988. ( limited preview in the Google book search).
10. ↑ Àngel Tarrach i Barrabia was also known under the name Angel Tarrac .
11. ^ A fine artist's model, a sculptor's wife , Angel Tarrac Virtual Museum.
12. ↑ The Famous Rancho del Artista, Mexico City, 40-60s  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   .
13. ↑ Fernado Betanzos: `Rancho del Artista ', modelo para retomar ; in: Boletín Informativo Turístico Vol. 3, No. 115 , Universidad de Guanajuato. 17th September 2012.
14. ^ Francisco Cornejo (English).