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Painter, printmaker, muralist, and illustrator Carlos Orozco Romero was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico on September 3, 1896. Showing an early aptitude for drawing, Romero's father, Jesus Orizco, hired Luis de la Torre, a traveling painter, to tutor his son in drawing in painting.

They would study en plein air and many of Romero's early works are landscapes and still lifes. He found work as a cartoonist at age 13 and joined the Centro Bohemio, an artists and intellectuals group that was also politically active.

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In this group he met and became friends with David Alfaro Siqueiros, Xavier Guerrero, and Carlos Stahl. He left for Mexico City at age 16 to participate in the burgeoning muralist movement. 

While living and working in Mexico City, Orozco worked for several national publications as an illustrator and cartoonist, replacing Jose Clemente Orozco as head cartoonist for El Heraldo when Jose left to support the revolutionary movement in Veracruz.

Orozco met