Pedro Gómez and Gómez


For other uses of this term, see Pedro Gómez. Bust of Pedro Gómez by León Ortega.

Pedro Gómez y Gómez (Huelva, 1888 - 1961). Spanish painter. He graduated from the School of Painting in Huelva specializing in landscape painting.

Biography

Professors Martínez Checa, Manuel López and Adrián García, the painter from Murcia Murillo de la Torre, Valencian Tomás Murillo, Eugenio Hermoso from Extremadura and finally from Joaquín Sorolla. He studied in the School of Arts and Industries and later in the School of Painting, both of Huelva.

In 1937, he installed his studio in San Cristóbal Street, a studio that will share with his friend the sculptor Antonio León Ortega from 1939 until the demolition of the building that coincides with his death in 1961. This studio of painting and sculpture at that time an informal school of artists and is known as the "Academy of San Cristóbal" and is frequented by all the artists and intellectuals who live or pass through Huelva.

Pedro Gómez developed at that time a teaching job to anyone who wants to learn to paint, sharing it with a tireless work in which he tries to catch the landscape of Huelva and especially his beloved Conquero and transfer it to the canvas, getting a magnificent testimony of the Huelva of those years. Work

He made a multitude of canvases highlighting the marinas and landscapes of El Conquero as well as some work in churches. Bibliography



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