Nicolás Moreno (Mexico City, 1923 - 2012) was a painter, drawer, engraver, and muralist, considered one of the best landscape artists of his time, and heir to the pictorial tradition of José María Velasco and Dr. Atl. In his childhood, his family moved to Celaya, Guanajuato, where he worked as a muleteer, allowing him to store vivid images in his memory that he would later depict on his canvases. He took his first drawing classes at La Esmeralda (School of Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking) attending at night. Later, from 1941 to 1945, thanks to a scholarship, he studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National School of Fine Arts), the former Academia de San Carlos. 

Starting in 1951, he shared his artistic knowledge at both institutions. In 1949, he became a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (Salon of Mexican Fine Art), alongside Raúl Anguiano, Angelina Beloff, Federico Cantú, and Dolores and Germán Cueto. In his prolific artistic production, Nicolás Moreno demonstrated his passion for nature by depicting natural landscapes from the Mexican province on canvas. Some of his most well-known works include the murals he created for the Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology): Valle de Teotihuacan en la prehistoria, Paisaje de Juchitepec, and Valle del Mezquital. Throughout his career, he held important solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, in countries such as Germany, the United States, Spain, France, England, Italy, Peru, and Poland, among others. In recognition of his career, he received the Prize of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1957, 1966, and 2001.