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Emilio Antonio Cruz (March 15, 1938 – December 10, 2004) was an African-American artist of Cuban descent who lived for most of his life in New York City. His work is held in several major museums in the United States. ==Biography== Emilio Antonio Cruz was an African American of Cuban descent. He was born in the Bronx on March 15, 1938. He studied at the Art Students League and The New School in New York, and finally at the Seong Moy School of Painting and Graphic Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. As a young artist in the 1960s, Cruz was connected with other artists who were applying abstract expressionism concepts to figurative art such as Lester Johnson, Bob Thompson and Jan Muller. He combined human and animal figures with imagery from archaeology and natural history to create disturbing, dreamlike paintings. Cruz received a John Jay Whitney Fellowship and awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Cruz moved to Chicago and taught at the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1970s where he exhibited widely and was represented by the Walter Kelly Gallery. He wrote two plays, ''Homeostasis: Once More the Scorpion'' and ''The Absence Held Fast to Its Presence''. These were first performed at the Open Eye Theater in New York in 1981, and later were included in the World Theater Festival in Nancy and Paris, France, and in Italy. In 1982 he returned to New York where he began to exhibit again. In the late 1980s he resumed teaching at the Pratt Institute and at New York University. Emilio Antonio Cruz died from pancreatic cancer on December 10, 2004 at St. Vincent's Hospital, aged 66. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emilio Cruz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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