He was born in Mexico City, and despite belonging to the group of artists and writers who put forward their ideas in the magazine Contemporáneos, was also a muralist and lithographer -an illustration of the variety of stances adopted by painters in the modern art of Mexico. He began his studies under Saturnino Herrán and leandro Izaguirre, teachers of the academic line. As a young man he went to the United States and worked for a time in scenography. On returning to Mexico in the early twenties he became involved with the Open Air Schools of Painting and tha drawing technique by Adolfo Best Maugard. He was prompted into his career as a painter by Manuel Rodríguez, from whom he assimilated the aesthetics of popular culture and a knowledge of European avant-garde movements. He paid short visits to Buenos Aires and Paris, and then back in Mexico joined the poets and dramatists of the Teatro Ulises, who was sponsored by Antonieta Rivas Mercado, where he contributed designs for some sets. He painted murals for public schools in Mexico and at the same time promoted art, both in galleries and state institutions. It was in the last ten years of his life that he produced most of his minimal output. In 1946, together with Frida Kahlo he recived an award from the Minsitry of Public Education, and only one year later he suddenly died.
