Casa-museo Antonio Pardón
Casa-museo Antonio Padrón is a public art centre in Gáldar dedicated to the Gran Canaria artist Antonio Padrón. His family was the first to propose a museum: an agreement among the heirs, backed by his aunt Dolores Rodríguez, made sure the works that remained in his studio would stay there after he died. The building process began when Dolores Rodríguez Ruiz filed a request on 6 May 1933 with the Gáldar town hall to construct a two-storey house on Calle Capitán Quesada. The functionalist project—created by architect Miguel Martín-Fernández de la Torre in 1931—also involved the study of Richard Van Oppel for the decoration and furnishings. Padrón’s own home, a regionalist space projected by González Padrón and built in 1947, held more than 150 pieces spanning his career, from early academic studies to the unfinished painting “Piedad,” begun in the last days before his death. …
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