Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico

Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico

CarilloGilThe Carrillo Gil Art Museum is located in the south of Mexico City. The museum bears the name of the collector Dr. Álvar Carrillo Gil and focuses mainly on the dissemination of its collection, which is mainly made up of works by José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera. The museum also features contemporary and experimental art by young artists.

The collection of Dr. Álvar Carrillo Gil began with the acquisition of the drawing “La Chole” by José Clemente Orozco, later he became the main collector of José Clemente Orozco and began to acquire works by the most important Mexican painters of the first half of the century XX.

Carrillo Gil entrusted Fernando Gamboa with the project to create a museum to house his entire collection, and also commissioned Augusto H. Álvarez with the architectural project.

In August 1974, Dr. Carrillo Gil and his wife, Carmen Tejero de Carrillo Gil, inaugurated the museum under the direction of Fernando Gamboa.1

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