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Original Oil on Canvas By noted artist Marco Antonio Gomez depicting burros by a waterway. 23" X19".

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Original Oil on Canvas By noted artist Marco Antonio Gomez depicting burros by a waterway. 23  X19 .
Original Oil on Canvas By noted artist Marco Antonio Gomez depicting burros by a waterway. 23" X19".
Bio information = Marco Antonio Gomez "Tony" was born in Durango, Mexico in 1910. He was 8 years old when the family moved to Ashfork, Arizona. His faBy noted artist Marco Antonio Gomez depicting burros by a waterway. 23" X19". Bio information = Marco Antonio Gomez "Tony" was born in Durango, Mexico in 1910. He was 8 years old when the family moved to Ashfork, Arizona.His father was a recognized portrait painter. Young Tony was raised among paint pots and canvases and one day had encroached upon his father's creative endeavors with a misplaced brush stroke. His father initially gave his son paints and canvas with the admonition: "You paint your pictures and let me paint mine", or words to that effect. Later his father taught him. Much of the artist's work springs from his background in mountainous northern Arizona. He grew up withintimate knowledge of the area's Indians, whom he rode and played with, and witnessed many of their now forgotten rituals and absorbed the "feeling" of the country. He moved to California during the great depression. He teamed up with two otheryoung artists to share living costs in a downtown Los Angeles apartment of highly debatable quality. The times were hard; meals were somewhat less than glamorous; patience and fortitude were necessary virtues. It was a period of gestation,