Breakfast and Coffee Emilio Villalba Bowen takes familiar iconography and

Bowen takes familiar iconography and handily corkscrews it with his own unique brand of humor and distinct painting style

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Oil on Cigar Box

" which created a cultural scandal when it was exhibited in 1884 at the Paris Salon

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Breakfast and Coffee Emilio Villalba Bowen takes familiar iconography andDetails Artist Bio Shipping 9 X 12 inches 2016 Oil on panel Framed to 12. 5 x 15. 5 x 1 in. A Southern California native, Emilio Villalba received his BFA from the Art Institute of California in 2006, and his MFA in Painting from the Academy of Art University in 2011. He currently lives in San Francisco where he teaches at the Art Institute of California and Cogswell College. Artist Statement: My portraits are inspired by master works, as well as the