After an early foray as a muralist in his home province of Jalisco, Guerrero Galván emigrated to the city around 1930, after having had academic schooling in the workshop of the forgotten nineteenth century master. José Vizcarra. With him he developed his draftmanship skills, which he maintained as the constructive base for his pictorial work, for which, in effect, the pictures produced between 1935 and 1942 are characterized by an excellent craft technique. He was, in his first years what one might call an artist of the old ways, that critics called "Italianized" painter, whose compositions brought to mind the Renaissance and the study of sketches of the great masters like Leonardo da Vinci. The influence of the classics on his work also comes from his study of and admiration for Picasso, especially the masive figures of his neoclassic period. Guerrero Galván liked to create poetic environments to place his characters in, thus the Niña sentada of the Blaisten Collection is not a portrait in the strict sense of the word, but a figure self-absorbed in its own feelings and the expressive artistic talents of the skilled palette of the painter.

Vide Luis-Martín Lozano in, Jesús Guerrero Galván {1910-1973). De personas y personajes (Of people and characters). Mexico, La Sociedad Mexicana de Arte Moderno, 1994.