My dear friend Annie B turned me onto today’s artist. These are the wonderful Art Deco illustrations by Mexican artist Ernesto García Cabral, A.K.A. El Chango. Cabral was an artist from the time he could hold a crayon. His first known published work appeared in a newspaper when he was just 10 years old, and by the time he was 12, he was teaching drawing at his school. He studied art in both Mexico and France. Once he began his professional career in art, his early work consisted mainly of political cartoons and caricatures related to the Mexican revolution. But it was really his gorgeous, fashionable illustrated magazine covers that made him a household name.

The artist died in 1968, and left behind him an impressive body of work comprised of thousands of magazine covers, Mexican movie posters, cartoons, and caricatures. Cabral’s illustrations serve as a marvelous example of the art and style of the times in which he worked.