Carlos Cañas

Carlos Cañas (September 3, 1924 – April 14, 2013)^[1] was a Salvadoran painter^[2] who studied art and theory at the School of Arts of El Salvador. In 1950, he received a scholarship to study art, history, aesthetics, and literature in Madrid at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

Carlos Cañas
Carlos Cañas in 2012
Born	(1924-09-03)September 3, 1924 San Salvador, El Salvador
Died	April 14, 2013(2013-04-14) (aged 88) San Salvador, El Salvador
Occupation	Painter
Spouse	Carmen Gutierrez Cañas
Children	2

Cañas participated at the First Latin American Biennial, Spain (1951); in the Fourth Biennial of the Engraving, Japan (1964); in the Sutton Gallery, USA (1979), amongst other important exhibitions at the worldwide level.

In 2012, he received the national prize of culture Premio Nacional de Cultura of El Salvador.^[3]