Francisco Eppens Helguera
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Francisco Eppens Helguera (1913-1990) was a Mexican artist known for his paintings, murals and sculptures. He was born in San Luis Potosí. Some of his paintings included "Las Hermanas" (The Sisters) and "Contrafuertes Coloniales" (Colonial buttresses). Eppens also designed the 1968 version of the Mexican coat of arms, which is still used today on government documents, coins and the national flag. He was the author of several murals in Mexico, most notably the mural of the Faculty of Medicine at the National University of Mexico in Mexico City, and the mural of the building of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
He designed many Mexican postage stamps from the late 1930s through the early 1950s. The stamps he created in the 1940s had a marked Art Deco character to them, such as the Helmsman stamp from 1940, which was issued in connection with the Inauguration of Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho, or the Wheat Sower stamp from 1942, issued to commemorate an international agricultural conference.
One of Eppens' most well known later images is the half moon dance used on an airmail stamp from 1950.
Toward the end of his life, in 1988 he received a retrospective at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
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- Ramón Valdiosera Berman, Francisco Eppens: El Hombre, Su Arte y Su Tiempo, Mexico (1988).
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