(b. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1913).
After suffering through several difficult years as a result of the Depression in the United States, Puerto Rico elected its first governor in 1948. As part of its project of industrialization, the government hired artists to create works that would educate the island's rural population. Many Puerto Ricans returned to the island from abroad, and among these was Lorenzo Homar, who had lived in New York since his adolescence. He returned in 1950, having studied at the Art Students' League, the Pratt Institute, and the Brooklyn Museum. It was through poster art that Puerto Ricans conveyed political and social sentiments, and Homar often represented the nationalist activist Pedro Albizu Campos in his posters. In 1957 he began and led the Taller de Artes Gráficas of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. He taught printmaking to scores of young artists, people such as Myrna Báez (b. 1931), Marcos Irizarry (1936-95), and Antonio Mart
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