Emilio Amero (May 25, 1901 – April 12, 1976) was a Mexican illustrator, muralist, educator, and leader in the Mexican Modern art movement. Amero used art to express his personal vision, typically through the medium of lithography. Beginning in 1915, Amero attended art classes at Open Air Schools in several nearby towns. Three years later, he attended the Academy of San Carlos. In 1925, Amero travelled to New York City, where he worked as an illustrator and received lessons from master lithographer George Miller. He returned to Mexico City in 1930, reviving lithography in Mexico by establishing a successful workshop at the Academy of San Carlos. The United States officially became Amero’s home in 1933 as he returned to New York to teach at the Florence Cane Art School. During the Great Depression, he painted murals for the Works Progress Administration alongside artists including José Clemente Orozco, Carlos Mérida, and Diego Rivera. Amero continued to teach classes at the Cornish School in Seattle, Washington and then the University of Oklahoma – where he also established a world-class print shop – until his retirement in 1968. Amero’s works are held in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Seattle Art Museum; and the Portkand Art Museum.

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