{"id":726,"date":"2018-09-08T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T19:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/?p=726"},"modified":"2018-09-08T14:33:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T19:33:58","slug":"february-2018-meeting-emigdio-vasquez-orange-county-art-treasure-speaker-rosemary-vasquez-tuthill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"February 2018 Meeting &#8211; Emigdio Vasquez: Orange County Art Treasure &#8211; Speaker: Rosemary Vasquez Tuthill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-704\" style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/events\/2018\/02\/Cesar-Chvz-mural-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-704\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/events\/2018\/02\/Cesar-Chvz-mural-2-300x120.jpg\" alt=\"Emigdio Vasquez, The Legacy of C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez (1997)\" width=\"588\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/events\/2018\/02\/Cesar-Chvz-mural-2-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/events\/2018\/02\/Cesar-Chvz-mural-2.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emigdio Vasquez, The Legacy of C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez (1997)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"auto-style8\">Orange County artist and muralist Emigdio Vasquez created over 400 oil paintings and 32 murals in the cities of Orange, Santa Ana, Fullerton, Anaheim, Irvine, and Placentia.\u00a0 At a young age, Emigdio began illustrating comic books and painting murals expressing his observations and studies. His paintings and murals evolved and primarily focused on working people, family, culture, and society.\u00a0 He embodied his observations of the essence of everyday life and memorialized the Chicano working class struggle for survival and dignity.\u00a0 Emigdio was often credited as the Godfather of Hispanic Art as a painter of reality and social commentary with universal themes, freezing a period of time which resonates even today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style8\">Emigdio&#8217;s murals include the &#8220;Legacy of Cesar Chavez&#8221; at Santa Ana College and he was featured in a recent Getty-sponsored art show at Chapman University&#8217;s Guggenheim Museum which featured twenty of his paintings and his mural, &#8220;Proletariado de Azlan,&#8221; that is located on Chapman property.\u00a0 Some of Emigdio&#8217;s murals were in excess of one hundred feet in length; and many of his murals can still be seen today.\u00a0\u00a0 Emigdio passed away several years ago, but his legacy lives on through his work and his children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style8\">For the February meeting, his daughter, Rosemary Vasquez Tuthill, an oil painter and muralist in her own right, will present a video she and her husband created that highlights each of Emigdio&#8217;s murals.\u00a0 In addition to answering questions, she will bring a few of her father&#8217;s artworks for audience viewing<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style8\">The meeting will be held on Thursday, February 8th, beginning at\u00a07:30 pm\u00a0at the Trinity Episcopal Church,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=2400+N.+Canal+St.,+Orange&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">2400 N. Canal St., Orange<\/a>.\u00a0 As always, members and the general public are cordially invited to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County artist and muralist Emigdio Vasquez created over 400 oil paintings and 32 murals in the cities of Orange,[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15","category-events-monthly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orangecountyhistory.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}