Emilio Amero

He was also a member of the first group of muralists to receive commissions in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, working alongside artists including José Clemente Orozco, Carlos Mérida, and Diego Rivera.

Raised and educated amidst the social and political upheaval of the Mexican Revolution,[1] Amero fully embraced its lessons and began to express his personal vision in painting, printmaking, illustration, photography, and filmmaking.

On his return to New York a few years later he became a teacher at the Florence Cane School of Art, executed murals for the Works Progress Administration, and experimented with photography and filmmaking.

He developed a friendship with the poet Federico García Lorca, who wrote a script for a Dada-esque Amero film entitled Viaje a la Luna (Trip to the Moon).

In 1940 Amero moved to Seattle, Washington to teach at the Cornish School, which had attracted such innovators as Martha Graham and John Cage.

The Gesture , color lithograph, 1948, Emilio Amero.