Famed Mexican painter Raul Anguiano, considered the heir apparent to the sweeping artistic styles inspired by the bloody 1910-17 Mexican Revolution, died late Friday after being hospitalized with heart problems. He was 90.

Anguiano was in Los Angeles when he began to feel ill and asked his wife Briggita to take him back to Mexico. He died at the capital’s Hospital Central Militar, according to the government news agency Notimex.

Anguiano was born in Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city some 280 miles (450 kilometers) northwest of the capital, on February 26, 1915, and attended the Free School of Painting there at age 12.

He moved to Mexico City in 1934 and was a founding member of the Popular Graphics Workshop and an art teacher at the Autonomous University of Mexico.

Also a noted muralist and engraver, Anguiano’s work combined abstraction with futurism in religious and political subjects, as well as everyday material he drew from his own life and times.

He was commissioned to do murals for schools and official buildings in Mexico City before traveling to New York to hone his craft.

Beginning in 1940, he began to focus on portraits, especially the female form, which became an important centerpiece of his work.