It was established in 1996 and has a collection of over 1,000 works by artists such as Rafael Coronel, Carlos Mérida, José Luis Cuevas, Sofía Bassi, Alberto Gironella, Federico Cantú, Marcos Huerta and Juan Manuel de la Rosa along with other Colima artists such as Gabriel de la Mora, Rafael Mesina, Gil Garea, Jorge Chávez Carrilo and Gabriel Portillo del Toro.
Echeverría was cofounder along with Vlady, Alberto Gironella, José Bartolí, Héctor Xavier and José Luis Cuevas, with the aim of breaking the hold that those of the established Mexican School of Painting had on the art market in Mexico.
After Tamarind, Joe became the technical director at Kanthos Press from 1961 to 1962, where he printed for José Cuevas and Aubrey Schwartz.
José Luis Cuevas (born 1934), modernist painter, printmaker, sculptor, and writer
These include honorary doctorates from Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (1984), the Universidad Veracruzana (2004), the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (2007) and the Instituto Superior de Arte and the Casa de las Américas in Havana (2008).
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Prominent members of the movement include José Luis Cuevas, Vicente Rojo Almazan, Roger von Gunten, Alberto Gironella, Vlady, Juan Soriano, Lilia Carrillo, Arnaldo Coen, Pedro Coronel, Enrique Echeverria, Manuel Felguérez, Fernando Garcia Ponce, Brian Nissen, Gabriel Ramirez, Kazuya Sakai and Gustavo Arias Murueta.