Jose Baray - Mexican Artists

Jose Baray Ramirez is the one of oldest and most experienced painter/muralist of a colony of artists in the Copper Canyon area in northwestern Mexico. Born in Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua during 1942, Baray earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) during 1969. He founded the Street Artists Guild at Mexico City as attending the university. Baray visited United States and Canada from the late 1960s and into the 1980s, showing his work and becoming well-famous in art circles.
Befriended by American painter Georgia O’Keeffe, Baray designed the well garden and laid its flagstone at her Ghost Ranch home near Abiquiu, New Mexico. Her influence could be seen in some of his paintings and murals.