Camilo Egas

Camilo Egas
Born
Camilo Alejandro Egas Silva

December 1, 1889
Quito, Ecuador
Died18 September 1962(1962-09-18) (aged 72)
New York City, U.S.
EducationEscuela de Bellas Artes, Quito
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Académie Colarossi
Known forPainting, Murals
Notable workEcuadorian Festival (mural), Las Floristas
MovementIndigenismo, Social realism, Surrealism, Abstract expressionism
AwardsMariano Aguilera Prize (1918, 1923)

Camilo Egas (1889-September 18, 1962) was an Ecuadorian master painter and teacher, who was also active in the United States and Europe. Egas was married in Paris 1927 to dancer and artist Margarita Gibbons. Camilo Egas museum in Quito illustrates a self portrait of the artist of 1946 that is on the cover of a pamphlet published by them then used for a book Jan 2003 edition by del Banco central del Ecuador.

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