CHRONOLOGY

• 1901
Born in Ixtlahuaca, Mexico of Spanish and Otomi Indian ancestory

• 1909
Moved to Mexico City met childhood friend Rufino Tamayo

• 1911
First studied art at the Academy of San Calos. Private drawing lessons from Antonio Gomez a family friend and newspaper artist

• 1917
Worked for Mexico Nuevo newspaper

• 1918
Re-enrolled at Academy of San Carlos (now the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, or ENBA). His fellow students included Diaz de Leon, Alva de la Canal, Enrique Ugarte and Leopoldo Mendez and Rufino Tamayo. Meets Jean Charlot at an exhibit in the library of the Academy of San Carlos. Attends the open air school in Coyoacan

• 1921
As a senior student at ENBA, Amero exhibited at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, National University of Mexico).

• 1923-4
Amero and Charlot start a revival of the graphic arts, working on the same lithographic stone. Emilio learned the fresco secco technique when he collaborated with Jose Clemente Orozco on murals in the National Preparatory School. He then worked with Diego Rivera on frescoes for the Ministry of Education building. Earlier he helped found, along with these artists, SOTPE (Sindicato de Obreros Tecnicos, Pintores y Escultores, Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors). Assisted Carlos Merida in the decoration of the Children's Library in the Ministry of Education building. Single-handedly he paints the walls of the main library of the same building in fresco.

• 1925
Traveled to US after several months in Havana. He mastered lithography techniques through training in Cuba and New York, where he worked with George C. Miller. Meanwhile, to earn a living, he worked as an illustrator and commercial artist for Theatre Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, the Herald Tribune, and Sacks Fifth Avenue, among others.

• 1930
He returned to Mexico and opened a lithography shop in ENBA attended by such noteworthy artists as Bracho, Jean Charlot, Olga Costa, Gabriel Fernandez Ledesma, Francisco Diaz de Leon, Dosamantes, Carlos Merida, Chavez Morado, Orozco Romero, and Alfredo Zalce.

• 1934-8
Returned to New York. Taught drawing and lithography at the Florence Cane Art School. Painted two murals at Bellevue Hospital. Made experimental films (lost) using pieces of machinery as actors and made photograms alla Man Ray. Appears to have been involved with the poet Federico García Lorca and particularly his film script, Viaje a la luna. First solo exhibition at Julian Levy Gallery, followed by a second one later.

• 1940
Went to Seattle to teach at the University of Washington and started a workshop there. Made a visit to Mexico and published Amero's Picture Book, a photographic folio of Techuantepec costumes and customs. Became head of the art department of the Cornish School. Started the New School of Art (extant?).

• 1942
Exhibited Art Institute of Chicago

• 1946-1968
Exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum. Accepted a professorship at the U of Oklahoma, teaching mural painting, printmaking, etching, lithography, and steel engraving. There he founded one of the leading graphic arts workshops in the world. He remained on the falculty for 22 years and lived out his days with his family in Norman, OK. He remained life-long friends with artists such as Charlot, who wrote a biographical manuscript (unpublished) on Emilio.

• 1976
Died of natural causes.

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