CERRO MACA BY RAMOS CATALAN

RAMOS CATALAN (1888-1961)

Cerro Macá  (2, 300m - 7, 500ft)    

Chile

In Mountains landscapes of Andes, oil on canvas,Valparaiso Art Museum / Palazzo Barburizza

The mountain 

Cerro Macá  (2, 300m - 7, 500ft) - not to be be confused with Mount Maca in Mozambique, Africa -  is a stratovolcano located to the north of the Aisen Fjord and to the east of the Moraleda Channel, in the Aysen del General Carlos Ibanez del Campo Region of Chile.  Part of the Andes, this glacier-covered volcano lies along the regional Liquiсe-Ofqui Fault Zone. It has erupted basalt.
This peak has no ascents officially registered by  professional climbers.

 Source: 

 - Peakbagger. com 

The painter 
Benito Ramos Catalán (1888-1961) was a chilean  painter who used to sign "Ramos Catalan". Known for his marines and landscapes of the Andes and Chile, and most particularly for his mountains paintings. Most of them have the same title: "Mountains of Chile" or  "Mountains landscapes of Andes", making quite difficult to know which mountain was exactly depicted, in a country which has quite a lot of summits ! To add to the difficulty, he used to paint the most famous mountains of his country under very unusual angles or with proportions that do not correspond exactly to their real size... making even more difficult to recognize and identify them for experts ! That is why today, 55 years after his death, some of these mountains paintings are not clearly identified and presented, in the public sales, as 'possibly' a particular summit of Chile or Andes...
His works are in many Chilean institutions like Viña del Mar Fine Art Museum, O'Higginiano Fine Art Museum in Talca, Valparaiso Fine Art Museum, and Navy  Schools in Valparaiso and Talcahuano, Ranos.