Juan Rosado
Toa Alta, PR, 1891-1962
Toa Alta, PR, 1891-1962
Painter and graphic designer. Rosado took his first painting lessons from Francisco Oller and Nicolás Pinilla. He also studied with Spaniard Fernando Díaz Mackenna from 1913 to 1924. In 1922, he established a commercial sign-making studio in Puerta de Tierra, which became a meeting place for artists. Many of the members of the “Fifties Generation” of Puerto Rican artists received their training in this studio, including Rafael Tufiño, Antonio Maldonado, Carlos Raquel Rivera, and David Goitía. A contemporary of Ramón Frade and Miguel Pou, like them Rosado employed a realistic style, with which he paid tribute to Puerto Rican values and traditions. His subjects included portraits, Puerto Rican “types,” still lifes, and landscapes, the last of which was a favored genre.
“Puerto Rican painters deserve laurel wreaths for the fierce struggle we have to undertake to protect ourselves from hunger’s treacherous attack. Trying to live from painting here is a suicide act or an attempt at our lives.”
Juan Rosado
Source: Exposición Homenaje Juan A. Rosado, Convento de los Dominicos, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 25 al 31 de julio de 1986.
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Delgado Mercado, Osiris. “Gran Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico”, San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Vol. VII, 1976, pp 125.
Hermandad de Artistas Gráficos de Puerto Rico, “Puerto Rico-Arte e Identidad”. San Juan: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1998.
“Exposición Homenaje Juan A. Rosado”, Convento de los Dominicos, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 25 al 31 de julio de 1986.
“Pinturas de la colección del Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico”, Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1994.
Enjuto, Federico. “El barrio latino de Puerta de Tierra”. Puerto Rico Ilustrado (San Juan, PR), 19 de junio de 1943, pp. 10.
“Paisajista puertorriqueño obtiene premio otorgado por la III Bienal Hispanoamericana de Barcelona”. El Mundo (San Juan, PR), 31 de marzo de 1956, pp. 24.
Spaulding, Mary M. “Juan A. Rosado recuenta su obra de 50 años”. El Mundo (San Juan, PR), 7 de junio de 1960, pp. 1985.