In 1950 upon his return to Puerto Rico, Tufiño expanded his growing interest in printmaking. In collaboration with Lorenzo Homar, José A. Torres Martinó,

... Rafael Tufiño, a child of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922 to Puerto Rican parents. At the turn of the century, large numbers of Puerto Ricans began relocating from the Island to the United States in search of jobs. Tufiño's parents had come from Puerto Rico during that early migration; his mother was a tobacco worker and his father a merchant marine. He was born on Bridge Street, Brooklyn, beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, in a neighborhood that has since been dubbed Dumbo. Tufiño first visited his parents' homeland at age four. From 1927 to 1932 he traveled between Puerto Rico and New York, attending schools in both locations. By 1932 Tufiño had moved to Puerto Rico, where he explored drawing, sign painting, and other artistic activities, including assisting in the creation of carnival floats. Some of Tufiño's earliest extant drawings date to his army tenure

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