Guillermo Vargas Ruiz

Guillermo Vargas Ruiz (Bollullos de la Mitación, Seville, 1910 - Madrid, 1990) trained in Seville and moved to Madrid in 1934 to study at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, later receiving a scholarship to the United States. He taught for most of his career at San Fernando and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He worked mainly on landscape and the nude and was a notable printmaker, awarded the Gold Medal for Printmaking of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in 1961.