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name: Moya del Pino
vorname: José
wikidata-repräsentation: Q18392775
gnd-repräsentation: 1011359936
biografische angaben: 1891—1969. Born in Priego, province of Córdoba, Spain.
As a boy of nine he was apprenticed to an itinerant artist who painted religious pictures of patron saints and lived by travelling from village to village selling hs works to peasants and small churches. by 1907 Moya was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, from which hhe graduated with honors, winning a travelling scholarship. By 1915 he was associationg with the Spanish Post-Impressionists, including Juan Gris and [the mexican] Diego Rivera. He painted a portrait of King Alfonso III of Spain in the early 1920s and spent four years painting forty-one reproductions of Velasquez' paintings in El Prado, Madrid, and in Valencia. King Alfonso asked him to travel with the collection to the New World as a goodwill gesture. The exhibit ended in San Francisco, where Moya settled, depending mainly on portraiture for his livelihood.
Otis Oldfield asked him to paint an oil lunette bay scene for the Coit Tower Lobby in 1934. Thereafter, Moya won a competition for a mural in the Stockton, California, post office, sponsored by the [Public Works of Art Project] PWAP. He later painted public art in Redwood City and San Rafael, in addition to a great deal of easel art. In 1928 he married artist Helen Horst; Labaudt has painted Moya del Pino holding his first-born daughter as a baby in the Powell Street staircase fresco in Coit Tower. Exhibiting widely, Moya del Pino won many awards for his esthetic and technical mastery. (source: Zakheim Jewett 1983)