Pintor Rufino A. Silva

Rufino A. Silva

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Rufino A. Silva (1919, Humacao, Puerto Rico – 1993, Mount Vernon, Washington) first arrived in New York in 1936 and moved to Chicago in 1939. With a scholarship granted by the government of Puerto Rico, he studied drawing, painting and illustration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1939 to 1942. Upon his graduation he received the John Quincy Adams Foreign Traveling Fellowship which he used to travel to South America. After serving in World War II, Silva became an art instructor at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, and also taught at Saugatuck School in Michigan. Thanks to the G.I. Bill, Silva traveled to Paris in 1947 where he attended l’Académie de la Grande Chaumière receiving a certificate in 1950. Then, he went to the University of Perugia, Italy to take courses on Etruscan art history. Silva worked at the Stamperia Nacionale and the Studio Hinna in Rome as a graphic artist. Returning to the Midwest, Silva continued his professional career as an artist receiving the Clusman Prize in 1955. In 1959 he joined the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a tenured Associate Professor of Painting. He retired as emeritus professor in 1982. A figurative painter evident in Acontecimiento con Fotógrafo, Silva’s expressive treatment of the human figure and his emphasis on faces and elongated emotional hands add dynamism and psychological tension to the group of ten men absorbed in observation above them. Silva trained a number of artists among them Chicago artists Paul Sierra. In 1989 Silva settled permanently in the town of Sedro Wolley, in Washington State.

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