Six years later, certain that he was on the right path as an artist, he held his first solo exhibition. He soon moved to the state capital, Salvador, where he studied printmaking at the Escola de Belas Artes da Bahia. After a stint as director of the Museu de Arte da Bahia in the early 1980s, Araújo headed to New York, where he taught courses in graphic arts and sculpture at City College. When Araújo liked an artist, he made it his mission to buy every piece of theirs he could find. But while Araújo had been winning praise for supporting certain artists, he was criticized for not including others.

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Persons: Araújo, São, Arthur Timótheo da Costa Organizations: Escola, Artes, Museu, da, City College, Museu Afro Brasil Locations: Salvador, Bahia, Florence, New York, Brazil, Brazil’s