Teodoro Ramos Blanco

Teodoro Ramos Blanco (1902 – 1972) was an Afro–Cuban sculptor and educator. He primarily worked in wood, bronze, marble, and stone; and his work addresses racial issues, and Afro-Cuban themes. In the 1930s and 1940s, Ramos Blanco was the foremost Cuban figurative sculptor. He started making artwork at a young age.

He attended Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in Havana and graduated in 1928, followed by study in Italy from 1928 until 1930.

Career Ramos Blanco won a gold medal for his artwork at the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 in Seville, Spain. Ramos Blanco also created a bust of Hughes titled, Head of Langston Hughes (c. 1930s). That same year, he had a solo exhibition with the William E. Harmon Foundation.

His work was included in the group exhibition, The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (1943), at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Starting around 1944, Ramos Blanco taught sculpture at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro. 1934 Inner Life white marble Havana, Cuba Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana 1937 Head of Black Woman wood 1939 Old Black Woman acana wood New York City, US part of the Museum of Modern Art 1941 Bust of Gen. Antonio Maceo bronze Howard University 1943 Bust of José Martí stone Sancti Spíritus, Cuba at Provincial Library (Biblioteca Provincial) 1948 Honor to Mothers of the World limestone, marble base Tampa, Florida, US 1950 Mother and Son stone Havana, Cuba at Leonor Perez Cabrera Maternity Center, Old Havana neighborhood c. 1954 Monument to Henri Christophe broze Port-au-Prince, Haiti in Champ de Mars park 1959 Monument to José Martí bronze Baltimore, Maryland, US erected in 1998, at intersection of North Broadway and East Fayette Street Monument to Placido (Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés) stone Havana, Cuba in Parque del Cristo Antonio Guiteras bronze Jean-Jacques Dessalines bronze Alexandre Sabès Pétion bronze