Juan de los Angeles Naranjo

Juan de los Ángeles Naranjo (2 October 1897 – 6 February 1952) was an

Early years

In 1913, after studding next to maestro Emilio Blaqué, Naranjo traveled to Spain to assist for the following to years of study at the

Naranjo arrives in Buenos Aires sometime in 1930 before the military coup that deposed Hipólito Yrigoyen. Before stepping down from the executive office, president Yrigoyen posed for Naranjo. During the following years in Argentina, Naranjo was commissioned to depict influential personalities such as Bishop Antonio Caggiano (1934), and prominent members of the community such as Mrs. Elivira Bradley de Montes (1945). In 1932 Naranjo exhibits his work at the Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and a major retrospective of Naranjo's works was held at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Rosario shortly after his return to Argentina. In 1935 Naranjo traveled to Patagonia to explore and paint the landscapes of the Andes, forests and deserts of the south.

Juan de los Angeles Naranjo was professor at the Profesorado Nacional de Estética under the umbrella of the Escuela Normal Nacional "Juan María Gutierrez", and also at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Rosario. He died in Rosario in 1952. Naranjo died on February 6, 1952, in Rio Ceballos, Córdoba, Argentina. He was survived by his wife Juana Costanza Moncotte; his daughters Beatriz Aida and Grisela; and his son Ruben, also a renowned local visual artist.^[5]

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