
Saints in Guatemala (Santos de Guatemala)
Francisco Amighetti RuizWW-1929-M062425
Catalogue
- Year
- 1929
- Medium
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
- composition: 9 5/16 x 6 5/16" (23.6 x 16.1 cm); sheet: 10 7/8 x 7 13/16" (27.7 x 19.8 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Francisco Amighetti Ruiz
Artist

Francisco Amighetti Ruiz
Painting
Francisco Amighetti Ruiz was a Costa Rican printmaker and painter whose woodcuts and lithographs documented rural and urban life in Central America with a sharp, expressionistic line. Working across the postwar decades, he developed a distinctive graphic vocabulary that merged social observation with formal experimentation in black and white media. His prints captured landscapes, labor, and everyday figures with a directness that avoided sentimentality.
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- Francisco Amighetti Ruiz
- Year
- 1929
- Medium
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
- composition: 9 5/16 x 6 5/16" (23.6 x 16.1 cm); sheet: 10 7/8 x 7 13/16" (27.7 x 19.8 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1929-M062425
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified