Manuel Rodulfo Tardo

Manuel Rodulfo Tardo (February 18, 1913 in Pueblo Nuevo, Mantanzas Province, Cuba – December 22, 1998 in New York City) was a Cuban artist.

He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro",[1] Havana, Cuba, together with Juan Esnard Heydrich y José Francisco Cobos, and at The Sculpture Center, New York City.

[2] He founded the Provincial School of Fine Arts (La Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Matanzas) with Rafael Soriano, José Felipe Núñez, Juan Esnard Heydrich and Roberto Juan Diago Querol[3] and was elected five times as its director.

Monument of Leonor Perez, Mother of Poet Patriot Jose Marti Baliar, Havana Cuba.

Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, Cuban Patroness, Basilica National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C., USA.

And in representation of his country his works were exhibited in the Hispanic American Artists of the United States: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Uruguay Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 1978.

His most relevant collections can be found in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba[6] The Museum of Fine Cuban Arts in Vienna, was inaugurated in 2009, with an remarkable selection of works by international Cuban artists, including important works by Manuel Rodulfo Tardo.