Ramón Cano Manilla
(1888-1974)

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Ramon Cano Manilla was born in the City of Veracruz, Mexico in 1888. From a very early age Cano Manilla did a variety of jobs in the country. Cano Manilla arrived in Mexico City in 1920 with a desire to study painting at the Academy of San Carlos. Alfredo Ramos Martinez, director of the Academy enrolled him into the Schoolof Open Air Painting in Chimalistac. A few months later Cano Manilla relocated to the Haciendo de San Pedro in Coyoacan. Manilla’s teachers were the well-known painters, Leopoldo Mendez and Fermin Revueltas.

Cano Manilla founded other open-air schools of painting in San Andres Tuxtla, Veracruz. In 1948 Cano Manilla relocated to the city of Mante, Tamaulipas where he created a variety of paintings. Cano Manilla also worked as the director of the Instituto Regional de Bellas Artes in Mexico for a number of years and did important murals in Tamaulipas.

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