María Izquierdo
Painting, Visual Artist
1902 – 1955
Who was María Izquierdo?
María Izquierdo was a Mexican painter. She was born María Cenobia Izquierdo Gutiérrez in San Juan de los Lagos in the state of Jalisco;. After her father died, when she was five years old, she lived with her grandparents and aunt afterward in small towns of Aguascalientes, Torreón, and Saltillo. Both her grandma and aunt were devoted Catholics and much of her upbringing revolved around daily Catholic traditions. At age fourteen she had an arranged marriage to a senior army officer, Colonel Cándido Posadas, and bore three children by the time she was 17 years old. In 1920 her and her family moved to Mexico City from San Juan de los Lagos where she first began to develop into a professional artist.
Always interested in art, Iqzuierdo spent much of her time alone teaching herself new art techniques. When she and her family moved to Mexico City in the 1920s, she acted on her passion and left Cándido Posadas.
Today María Izquierdo is known for being the first Mexican female to have her artwork exhibited in the United States.
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- Born
- Oct 30, 1902
San Juan de los Lagos - Also known as
- Maria Izquierdo
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Academy of San Carlos
- Lived in
- Jalisco
- Died
- Dec 3, 1955
Mexico City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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