Considered one of the most outstanding painters of Madrid, Alfredo Ramón is a genial man, an artist of great dimensions, whose heart and soul are embedded in the environs of the city of Madrid.

Born in La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia, he has resided all his life in Madrid. Upon his graduation from the Escuela Superior Central de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, he obtained the titles of Painter and Professor of Art.

In the mid 1950's he held his first individual exhibit at the Biosca Art Gallery in Madrid. Since then he has celebrated over 30 individual shows and has participated in over 100 important group shows.

His first love is painting street scenes or urban landscapes, and he calls himself a "street painter". His works do not show a monumental city, or a picturesque city, but the Madrid which harbors anonymous, but undoubtedly singular scenes. His vision of old Madrid is a realistic, yet modest one. He is interested in the world of shop fronts, taverns with a flavor or old wine, a "zapatería" shop crammed with shoes, small "pescaderías" fish shops, newspaper stands, aristocratic portals from times gone by &endash; these are his favorite subjects.

The City Hall of Madrid so admired his works, that it purchased eight paintings for the permanent collection of the Municipal Art Museum.

Alfredo Ramón has had many articles written about him as a "street painter", yet he is many other things as well: a portrait painter, a watercolorist (painting on the spot when the traffic permits), designer of stage sets and costumes, muralist, lecturer, and professor of Art. He works in oils, egg tempera, pen and ink, charcoal and pastels.

Since the 1950's he has traveled widely throughout Spain, Europe, Mexico and especially the United States, painting and sketching. Since 1957 Mr. Ramón has taught Art History for North American University and College programs in Spain. For the last 26 years, he has been Artist in Residence in the summers in the Spanish School of Middlebury College in Vermont, where he is the designer of the sets, costumes and posters for the Spanish Theatre.

Alfredo Ramón's paintings can be found in various museums in Spain, as well as in many prestigious private collections throughout Europe, North and South America, and both the Near and Far East.