Juan O’Gorman - Mexican Artists

Juan O’Gorman (July 6, 1905 - January 17, 1982) was a famous Mexican artist, both a painter and an architect.

O’Gorman was born in Coyoacán, Mexican Federal District, a community within superior Mexico City, to an Irish father, Cecil Crawford O’Gorman (a painter himself) and a Mexican mother. In the 1920s he studied structural design at the Academy of San Carlos, the Art and Architecture school at National University, Mexico. He became a renowned architect, worked on the new Bank of Mexico building, and under the power of Le Corbusier introduced modern functionalist architecture to Mexico City.

His paintings often treated Mexican history, scenery, and legends. He painted the murals in the Independence Room in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Castle.

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