José María Velasco Gómez Obregón

His painting El valle de México is considered Velasco's masterpiece, of which he created seven different renditions.

José María Velasco Gómez Obregón studied at Academy of San Carlos. Training under Eugenio Landesio pta is recorded. Paula Voit is recorded as having studied under José María Velasco Gómez Obregón. the recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Residence is recorded at Valley of Mexico and Temascalcingo de José María Velasco. Works named in the authority record are Scene from the Quaternary upper Paleolithic Period, Flora and Fauna from the Miocene Cenozoic Period, Ensayo Ornitológico de la Familia Trochilidae, Descripción, metamorfosis y costumbres de una especie nueva de Siredón, Waterspout from Lake Texcoco and Ahuehuete. Work by José María Velasco Gómez Obregón is recorded in the collections of Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museo Nacional de Arte and Veracruz State Art Museum. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — José María Velasco Gómez • Birth Name — José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús Velasco Gómez Obregón • Born — 6 July 1840 • Birthplace — Temascalcingo, Mexico Department, Centralist Republic of Mexico • Died — 26 August 1912 • Place of death — Villa de Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico • Training — Academy of San Carlos • Field — Painting, landscapes and portraits • Works — El valle de México

• Illustration — El Valle de México, s. XIX Velasco was born in Temascalcingo. He studied art at the Academy of San Carlos under the professor of landscape, Italian Eugenio Landesio, who began teaching at the academy in 1855.[2] Landesio raised landscape painting in Mexico to high art, and articulated theories of composition that he implemented in his landscapes. Velasco is his most famous pupil, who following his mentor's departure in 1877, dominated Mexican landscape painting and gained an international reputation, whose works became part of collections in the U.S.[3] Velasco's production can be classified into three periods: The academic years, from 1860 to 1889, that include La Plaza de San Jacinto en San Ángel, Las montañas de la Magadalena, La Alameda de México, El bosque de Jalapa, El Cedro de Chimalistac and El Ahuehuete de Chapultepec. • Illustration — José María Velasco - Rochas, sem data at the Museo Soumaya The period from 1890 to 1892, when he was in touch with French Impressionists, that includes Valle de Mexico desde el cerro de Atraeualco and Ajusco visto desde el Tepeyac. Finally, a personal period from 1892 to 1912, Rocas del cerro de Atzacoalco, Pirámide del Sol en Teotihuacán, Popocatepetl, Ixtlaciual, Templo de San Bernardo, Cascada de Necaxa and El Puente de Metlac.[4] Velasco served as a Commissioner for Fine Arts for the Mexican delegation to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where he exhibited seventeen of his own oil paintings.[5] Velasco was interested in science, and, as a student at the Academy of San Carlos studied zoology and botany at the nearby medical school; he also studied mathematics, geology, and surveying before becoming a student of painting.[6] In 1879, he described a new species of Ambystoma found in the Santa Isabel lake, north of Mexico City, and published his observations in the Mexican scientific journal La Naturaleza (La Naturaleza 4: 216). The new species was named by Velasco Siredon Tigrina. In 1888 Alfredo Dugès (1826–1910) renamed the species and dedicated it to Velasco as Ambystoma velasci (see also Plateau Tiger Salamander). Velasco died in 1912 in Villa de Guadalupe, Mexico City. In 1997, botanists Calderón & Rzed. published Velascoa, which is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from north-eastern Mexico belonging to the family Crossosomataceae. It also was named in José María Velasco Gómez's honour.[7]

• Illustration — Study of a viper • Illustration — Study of pansies • Illustration — Study of Axolotl, 1879 • Illustration — Study of harpy eagle for the painting • Illustration — Detail of harpy eagle in the painting • Illustration — Detail of Nopal prickly pear cactus in the painting • Illustration — The finished painting • Illustration — Velasco's signature on a rock in the painting • Illustration — Courtyard of the former convent of San Agustín • Illustration — The sculptor Felipe Sojo • Illustration — God the Father • Illustration — Ahuehuete of La Noche Triste • Illustration — Ferrocarril • Illustration — Cardon cactus, 1887 • Illustration — Detail in painting of Cardon cactus • Illustration — Valley of Mexico from Santa Isabel hill • Illustration — Barranca del Muerto, 1909 • Illustration — Calvary, 1909 • Illustration — Eruption, 1910 • Illustration — The Great Comet of 1882, painted 1910

José María Velasco Gómez Obregón was recorded at birth as José María Velasco y Gómez Obregón. The authorities additionally record the headings José María Velasco, Jose Maria Velasco, José Maria Velasco, Jose Maria Velasco Gomez Obregon and José María Velasco y Gómez-Obregón. His recorded language was Spanish.

Works recorded as notable number 6: Scene from the Quaternary upper Paleolithic Period, Flora and Fauna from the Miocene Cenozoic Period, Ensayo Ornitológico de la Familia Trochilidae, Descripción, metamorfosis y costumbres de una especie nueva de Siredón, Waterspout from Lake Texcoco and Ahuehuete. His recorded genre is landscape.

José María Velasco Gómez Obregón is recorded as painter, university teacher, traveler, lithographer and artist.