Alberto Garduño was born in April 30, 1885 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. He entered to the Academia de San Carlos in 1903 under Germán Gedovius and Félix Parra, being his fellows Diego Rivera, Roberto Montenegro, Angel Zárraga and other painters who had great influence on Mexican painting. He participated in the exhibition on the occasion of the Independence Centenary and later dedicated to graphic arts. According Rivera, Garduño’s painting defines him as “a honest and excellent art worker”. Garduño belongs to a generation of painters that were concerned to find a national modernism. Rivera and Saturnino Herrán were the most important artists from this group. Although Garduño was not a member of the muralista movement, he agreed with the Mexican school concerns. He taught in the Academia de San Carlos during twelve years from 1910 to 1922. In 1925 he traveled to Europe, returning a year and a half later to found a private painting school in Mexico City. He died in April 15, 1948. In 1989 the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes organized as a tribute an anthological exhibition, later presented in the Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico.
