Word: florencio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About eight years ago the Compañia Argentina de Alpargatas, a Buenos Aires shoe company, was lucky enough to sign up a 39-year-old artist named Florencio Molina Campos. The calendars which Artist Campos has been turning out every year for the Compañia Argentina de Alpargatas are highly prized rarities in the U. S. and may well be collectors' items when the Compañia's last shoes are worn to dust. Last week this distant reputation materialized in Manhattan in the form of an intent, sardonic, cigar-waving Latin and about 40 paintings...
...Florencio Molina Campos never had a drawing lesson and he swears he couldn't draw a straight line if his life depended on it. In a style which fairly often succeeds in being comic, epic and pastoral at the same time, he has done more than 600 tempera and watercolor drawings of Gaucho life on the pampas of Argentina as he remembers it from his own childhood. So crammed with vitality are his buck-toothed cowboys and hammer-headed broncos, thrown into relief by strong, earthy tempera colors, that Pio Collivadino, onetime director of the National School of Decorative...
...Havana, Rosa Cannavaciolo was married to Ignacio Florencio Octavio Leopoldo Enrique Carlos Pedro Luis Joaquin Ramon Salvador Manuel Lorenzo Esteban Modesto Jose Boada y Marin...
...Simultaneously the third wave of the revolution was sweeping across President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena's famed Moorish patio, disturbing the tortoise in his fountain pool, causing the tame white cranes and the egrets to wake up and squawk. Warned by these fowl, the guards of the Presidential Pal ace were alert. They raked the first group of advancing revolutionists with a volley, scattered them in headlong flight...