Hispanic Heritage Month

Celebrated September 15–October 15, National Hispanic Heritage Month applauds the achievements of Latinos.

Hispanic artist Jesse Treviño was born in Monterrey, Mexico, in 1946, and his family moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1948. Everyday, matter-of-fact portrayals of life in the barrio are his passion.

He said, "I experimented with a lot of different materials and styles while I was in college, but finally decided to paint what was around me—what I had grown up with."

Treviño's Mis Hermanos is among sixty-six paintings, sculptures, and photographs celebrating hispanic art in Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, now on view at the El Paso Museum of Art in Texas.

Source: National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C. and Boston, New York, Toronto, and London: National Museum of American Art with Bulfinch Press, Little Brown and Company, 1995).

Pictured: Jesse Treviño, born Mexico 1946, Mis Hermanos (My Brothers), 1976, acrylic, 48 x 70 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Lionel Sosa, Ernest Bromley, Adolfo Aguilar of Sosa, Bromley, Aguilar and Associates.