José Melendez Contreras was born in 1921 in Nagaubo, Puerto Rico. Trained as a painter at the Academy of Art in Cincinnati, he began his career as a grafic artist at the Taller de la División de Educación de la Comunidad in 1952 and worked there as a graphic artist for posters and book illustrator until 1977. Source:Teresa Tió, EL CARTEL EN PUERTO RICO, México, Pearson Education México, 2003 |