Quinta Recreo was established in 1945, in an old XVII century converted tannery by Sonia and Enrique Cervantes, two
talented artists who traveled from Europe to join the group of painters that congregated in San Miguel de Allende in the 1940s,
led by David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo and Diego Rivera.
Well
known international artists and writers became guests at Quinta Recreo including:
York
Wilson, Fred Taylor, Emilio Fernandez, Chavez Morado, Montenegro, Richard Marx, Jim Croce and Liona Boyd, to name a
few.
