Happy Birthday Juan Gris!

Opening up my web browser to Google I find that today is the birthday of Juan Gris.  Don't know who he is?  Well, he was one of the prominent artists of the Cubism movement (who was not Pablo Picasso).  Yes!  Picasso was not the only Cubist artist!  Surprised?  You should get to more art museums.

Here is a little bit about Juan Gris from Wikipedia:

José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works, which are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic genre—Cubism—are among the movement's most distinctive. [READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE]

I have put together the works of Juan Gris from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and their "My Gallery" feature.  Only a handful of these works are on display at the museum, but you can also see some awesome examples of the Cubist movement and maybe stick around or the van Gogh exhibit. Click on the image below to visit "My Gallery" of Juan Gris works.

Happy Birthday, Juan!