Daily Pilot | Sarah Mosqueda
Photo: The Hilbert Museum presents “Emigdio Vasquez: The Godfather of Chicano Art” in Orange. (Sarah Mosqueda)
Artist and author Rosemary Vasquez Tuthill remembers when her father, Emigdio Vasquez, asked her to pose for one of his paintings. She was a teenager and he asked her to remain still and hold a lit cigarette.
“I was 13 years old and I didn’t understand what he wanted me to do,” Vasquez Tuthill said. “He said ‘sit like that and don’t move.’”
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