Word: quintanilla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furniture, scientifically designed in pale plywood by the brilliant Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto. Balancing these examples of machine and functional art was a third room in which visitors found reportorial art of the most sensitive kind-an exhibition of 105 drawings made in Spain by the Leftist artist, Luis Quintanilla...
...Basque, a nephew of a Bishop of Burgos, Luis Quintanilla was at one time a student at the Jesuit University of Deusto near Bilbao. Before the World War and before he was 20, he lived with the late Cubist Juan Gris in a leaky studio on the Place des Abbesses. Paris, learned to paint, he says, by "talking about it all the time." Little known in Spain until 1927, when he returned to Madrid after two years in Florence, he gradually became recognized as one of the finest artists of the people since Goya. While he was in prison...
While bombs and shell fire were making rubble out of Luis Quintanilla's murals and his studio near University City, he fought with the Leftist infantry in the Guadarrama Mountains, at Toledo and in Madrid. In the fourth month of the war the Government carefully sent him out of danger on a diplomatic mission to France. Last June it let him return for six months of sketching along the front from Madrid to Teruel. After showing his drawings in Barcelona last December, Artist Quintanilla packed them, frames and all, in six padded trunks and took ship...
...legs. As the Red charge broke and failed on the 59th day of the siege, its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Luis Barcelo, was carried off the field with a bullet in his leg, still crying with Spanish braggadocio: "Everything is going fine!" Explained one of his friends, Spanish Muralist Luis Quintanilla, Ernest Hemingway's good friend (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934), who has now become a militia major: "We cannot take a fortress like the Alcázar in five minutes...
Every day,, pretending to be his sister, Mary Hoover called on Prisoner Quintanilla, found him infuriated but comfortable, hard at work painting a portrait of the warden who was hugely pleased. On top of the excitement of her first Manhattan show, Artist Hoover last week received even better news: the Spanish Government had relented to the point of letting Luis Quintanilla out on 3,000 pesetas bail...