He is born in 1906, in Santiago de los Caballeros, died in 1979. He began to study art when he was 11 years old. His first individual exhibition takes place in Santo Domingo , in 1932, having a true commotion.

In 1939 He receives the gold medal in the international exhibition of San Francisco , California , while in 1952. He obtains the first painting award in the VI Biennal of art, in Santo Doming o.

He is recognized as creator of an authentic Dominican painting. The historian Emilio Rodriguez Demorizi explains that as follows: He has given us the most wide and real vision of the native, of our costumes. In his portraits, in his landscapes, in his peasants, is the resignation of sadness, the rustic and lonely soul from the Dominican happiness that comes up. Parting from the impressionism, his works reflect a perfect dominion of light.