A partial list of Cuban or Cuba-related Artists of interest to us, mostly, but not all, working prior to 1960:

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Eduardo Abela (1889-1965), Cuban

Angel Acosta Léon (1932-1964), Cuban

Francois Mathurin Adalbert (1805-1839), French, active in the Caribbean ca. early 1830s, including Cuba and Puerto Rico

Antonio Sanchez Araujo (1887-1946), Cuban     

Wifredo Arcay (1925-1997), Cuban

Jorge Arche (1905-1956), Cuban       

B

Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), American, active in Cuba (dates unknown)  

Jose Ygnacio Bermudez (1922-1998), Cuban      

Cundo Bermudez (1914-2008), Cuban

Teodoro Ramos Blanco (1902-1972), Cuban      

Ángel Botello-Barros (1913 - 1986), Spanish-Puerto Rican, active in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti

 Rigobert Bonne (1727-1794), French, active in the Caribbean ca. 1780, including Bermuda, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, St. Martin, and Trinidad

Juana Borrero (1877-1896), Cuban

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C

Agustin Cardenas (1927-2001), Cuban

John Wilson Carmichael (1800-1868), British/American painted in Cuba

Mario Carreño (1913-1999), Cuban

Pedro Reinaldo Álvarez Castelló (1967-2004), Cuban

Federico Fernandez Cavada (1831-1871), Cuban

Esteban Sebastian Chartrand (1840-1884), Cuban, active in Cuba ca. 1860s-1880s

Philippe Chartrand (1825-1889), Cuban painter of French descent

Juan Francisco Wenceslao Cisnero (1823-1878), Salvatorian, active in Cuba ca.1853  

Henry Cleenewerck (1818-1901), Belgian painter, visited Cuba where he was a celebrated artist. Left there in 1868. 

Guillermo Collazo Tejada (1850-1896), Cuban painter, worked mainly in Cuba, and additionally New York, U.S.A. and Paris, France

Hugo Consuegra (1929-2003), Cuban

Eldzier Cortor (1916-2015), American, active in Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba 1949-1951

Francisco Gutiérrez Cossío (Cuba, 1894 - Alicante, 1970)

Joaquín Cuadras (1843-1877), Cuban painter, worked temporarily in Florence, Barcelona, London and Scotland

 

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D

Sandú Darié (1908-1991), Romanian/Cuban

Adolph Dehn (1895-1968), American, active in Cuba and Haiti 1948-1949

Zilia Sanchez Dominguez (b.1926), Cuban          

 

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E

Antonia Eiriz (1929-1995), Cuban

John B. Elwin (20th Century), American, active in Cuba Ca. 1935

Jose Nicolas de Escalera (1734-1804), Cuban     

Walker Evans (1903-1975), American, active in Cuba 1933

 

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F

Agustin Fernández (1928-2006), born in Havana, Cuba

Jesse A. Fernández (1925-1986), born in Havana, Cuba, prominent painter and photographer

Ramón Frade (1875 – 1954), Puerto Rican, traveled to the Dominican Republic and Cuba

John Athill Frith (1835 - 1907), Bermudian photographer, active in Cuba (Bio here)

 

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G

Carlos Enríquez Gómez (1900-1957), Cuban

Manuel Wssel de Guimbarda (1833-1907), Spanish, born in Havana or Trinidad, Cuba; moved to Spain at the age of eight

Hippolyte Jean-Baptiste Gurneray (1787-1858), French, active in Cuba ca. 1823-1824

 

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H

George Overbury "Pop" Hart (1858-1933), American, active in the Caribbean ca. early 1900s, 1912-1919, 1922, 1930-1931, including The Bahamas, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad

Robert Harvey (1848-c.1920), Scottish, active in the Caribbean ca. early 1900s, including Cuba, Jamaica, and Trinidad

Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935), American, active in Cuba

Hector Hyppolite (1894-1948), Haitian, active in the Caribbean (dates unknown), including Cuba and Hait

 

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I

J

K

L

Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam (1902-1982), Cuban

Victor Patricio de Landaluze (1828-1889), Spanish/Cuban, active in Cuba ca. 1860s-1880s

Eduardo Laplante (1818-1860), French, active in the Caribbean ca. 1850s, including Cuba and Trinidad

Edmund Darch Lewis (1835-1910), American, active in Cuba 1860-mid-1870s

Guido Linas (1923-2005), Cuban

Rita Longa (1912-2000), Cuban   

Manuel Vega Lopez (1892-1954), Cuban

Alfredo Lozano (1913-1997), Cuban

 

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M

Víctor Manuel García Valdés (1897-1969), Cuban

Conrado Massaguer (1889-1965), Cuban

Federico Beltrán Massés (1885-1949), Cuban

Ruperto Jay Matamoros (1912-2008), Cuban     

Fritz Sigfried Georg Melbye  (1826-1869), Danish, active in the Caribbean 1840s-1860s, including St. Thomas (1849), St. Croix (1852), Cuba (ca. 1864), the Dominican Republic (ca. 1864), and Jamaica (1865)

Miguel Melero (1836-1907),Cuban 

Miguel Angel Melero (1865-1887), Cuban        

Armando Menocal (1863-1942), Cuban

Richard Merkin (1938 - 2008), American, in Cuba Ca. 1940's

Pierre Toussaint Frédéric Mialhe (1810-1868), French, in Cuba (1838-1853), spent time in Havana and traveled into the interior with the naturalist Felipe

Poey for subject matter

José Maria Mijares (1921-2004), Cuban

Eduardo Morales (1868/69-1938), Cuban

Jose Arburu Morell (1864-1889), Cuban

Servando Cabrera Moreno (1923-1981), Cuban

Antonio Rodriguez Morey (1874-1967), Cuban landscape painter

James Wilson Morrice (1865-1924), Canadian, active in Cuba, Jamaica, and Trinidad

 

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N

Gilberto de la Nuez (1913-1993), Cuban outsider artist

 

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O

Francisco Manuel Oller (Y Cestero) (1833 - 1917), Puerto Rican, active in Puerto Rico and exhibited in Cuba

 

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P

Amelia Peláez del Casal (1896/7-1968), Cuban

Jose Antonio Diaz Pelaez (1924-1988), Cuban 

Luis Martinez Pedro (1910-1990), Cuban

Marcelo Pogolotti (1902-1988), Cuban     

Mark Alexander Pollack (1874-1946), American, died in Cuba

Fidelio Ponce de León (pseudonym of Alfredo Fuentes Pons, 1895 - 1949), Cuban

James Amos Porter (1905-1970),  American, active in the Carribean 1945-1946 and mid-1960s, including Haiti and Cuba

René Portocarrero (1912-1985 or 86), Cuban

 

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Q

Roberto Juan Diago Querol (1920-1955), Cuban

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R

Domingo Ramos (1897-1956), Cuban     

Elmer Joseph Read (b. 1862, death date unknown), American, active in The Bahamas, Cuba, etc. in the early 1900's (Bio here)

Oscar Garcia Rivera (1915-1971), Cuban

Miriam Rocher (1886-1971), French, active in Cuba in 1917

Mariano Rodriguez (1912-1990), Cuban

Leopoldo Romañach y Guillen (1822-1951), Cuban

 

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S

Emilio Sanchez (1921-1911), Cuban/American, lived and worked in the United States mostly

James G. Sawkins (1806-1878), British, active in Cuba ca. 1835-1845; active in Guyana ca. 1860s

RobertSawyers (1923-2002), British, active in Cuba and Jamaica (dates uncertain)

Juan Jose Sicre (1898-1974), Cuban        

Lolo Soldevilla (1901–1971), Cuban

Dominic Serres the Elder (1719-1793), British, active in Cuba ca. early 1760s

Rafael Soriano (1920-2015), Cuban, lived and worked in the United States

Alfredo Sosabravo (b.1930), Cuban        

 

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T

Manuel Rodulfo Tardo (1913-1998), Cuban       

José Joaquín Tejada (1867-1934), Cuban

 

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U

V

Juan Bautista Vermay (1786-1833), Cuban

W

Thomas Whitcombe (ca. 1763-ca. 1824), British, active in the Caribbean (dates uncertain), including Cuba and Jamaica

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Z