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Ortiz Emilia Biography

Mexican painter, cartoonist, caricaturist, and poet, best known for her watercolours. Her father, Abraham D. Ortiz, had arrived at Tepic originally from Oaxaca where he married Elvira Perez and engaged in haberdashery and the hardware trade. She studied painting at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. Her drawings and paintings were exhibited in 1940. An author as well, her prizewinning book, De mis soledades vengo, was published in 1986.  She died in Tepic on 24 November 2012 at the age of 95. The Museo Emilia Ortiz in Lerdo houses Ortizs photography and art, as well as local art. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less