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Hector Aguilar
1905–1986
CountryMexico
Biography1905: born at ?1905-1937: lived and educated in Mexico City; worked as a tour guide as a young adult
1937: settled in Taxco and hired by William Spratling as amager of Spratling "taller" (shop or studio)
1939: left Spratlings employment and opend his own studio, called "Taller Borda"
1966 (or 62, according to a label w/o a documented source): closed "Taller Borda" and moved to Zihautanejo
1970: died at Zihautanejo
(from _Mexican Silver: 20th-Century Handwrought Jewelry and Metalwork_ by Carole A Berk and Penny C. Morrill)
Mother's surname was Ricketson
(from Ms. Penny C. Morrill via Ms. Lisa Lertora, an employee of Carole A. Berk, LTD in Bethesda, MD)
"William Spratling, a New Orleans architect and professor at Tulane University, visited Mexico in 1925 to study Spanish and colonial architecture. He ended up sparking the reopening of Taxco's silver mines and reviving the city's tradition of silver manufacturing. Although his early work in silver incorporated indigenous motifs, including references to Aztec codices and Mayan hieroglyphs, later works...display the simplified forms popularized by the Art Deco movement during the 1920s and 30s." (from a label from an undocumented exhibtion of Aguilar's work)
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