Vintage Native American art M. S. Franco 1979 signed watercolor and ink original art painting 12.5x9.5”, 19x16.25” with frame 2024

Vintage Native American art M. S. Franco1979 signed watercolor and ink original art painting 12.5x9.5”, 19x16.25” with frame

About M.S.Franco


" Visual art has the ability to penetrate deep into the heart of someone who sees it ...
the ability to communicate --- everything ! "


Manuel S. Franco was born in Coyame, a tiny Chihuahuan Desert village in the northwestern state of Chihuahua, Mexico. He earned a degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Chihuahua. Franco worked in the Mexico mining industry for several years before moving to the Estados Unidos de América where he became a noted fulltime artist. Manuel's Indian/Mexican heritage provides him with the intuition and skills to create incredible images in Still Life, Wildlife and Native American scenes, along with many landscapes of the American west. Franco has achieved international recognition in the field of Southwestern art, creating in pencil, pastel, oil and bronze. But he is most prolific in water color, a medium that allows him to paint in meticulous detail. During the past thirty-plus years, Franco has received numerous awards and honors, two of which he treasures the most. In 2007, his alma mater, the University of Chihuahua celebrated his achievements with a one-man show at Quinta Gameros Museum. At the same time, his hometown, Coyame, named him “their favorite son”. The biography, M. S. Franco, the Artist and His 2024 Angels, tells Franco's colorful story…its origin in a tiny Mexican village to it artistic flowering on the broad American stage