Myrna Báez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Myrna Báez

Puerto Rican painter and printmaker

Date of Birth: 18-Aug-1931

Place of Birth: Santurce, Puerto Rico, United States

Date of Death: 24-Sep-2018

Profession: artist, educator, painter, printmaker, lithographer

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Myrna Báez (born August 18, 1931 - September 24, 2018) was a Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, considered one of the most important visual artists in Puerto Rico.
She has been instrumental in promoting art and art education in her country.
Her work has been shown and collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Her work has been characterized as confident and complex.
She lived and worked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.