Pastor Argudín Pedroso

[3][4] He was internationally exhibited and was awarded the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes by the Republic of Cuba, for his artistic merit.

[7] He studied at the Academy under Leopoldo Romañach, Armando Menocal, Luis Mendoza Sandrino, and Miguel Melero Rodriguez.

[7] In Spain, he studied under José Moreno Carbonero, Miguel Blay, Cecilio Plá, and Gonzalo Bilbao.

[2] Argudín Pedroso was a guest of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, and lived at his house in Brooklyn, New York for almost one year in the 1930s.

Some of his portrait subjects included Rafael María de Labra,[2] Cayetano Quesada (Cuban consul in New York City),[9] Arturo Alfonso Schomburg,[9] John La Farge,[9] Rev.