(b. Granada, Nicaragua, Jan. 1927).
Morales studied (1941-1945, 1948-1953) at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Managua, and began to exhibit internationally in the 1950s. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, he made his first visit to New York in 1957, where he continued his studies at the Pratt Graphics Center in New York (1960-1964). His early paintings were realistic landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes. From the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, his works combined figurative elements with broad abstract forms. His colors were primarily somber tones, black, white, and gray with some red and blue; he painted with a thick impasto and sometimes added collage elements to the canvas. By the 1970s his work became more figurative, and he began to paint lush fruit and splendid nudes. In 1973 Morales taught at the Cooper Union and served as the Nicaraguan cultural attache to the New York Consulate. His first series of lithographs were published in 1979. Morales has received numerous awar
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