María Izquierdo

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María Izquierdo (October 30, 1902 - December 3, 1955), born María Cenobia Izquierdo Gutiérrez in San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, was a Mexican painter. In 1927, she left her husband to whom she had been betrothed at age 15, and entered the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. She became the lover of Rufino Tamayo, then an instructor, and Diego Rivera. She later married diplomat and painter Raúl Uribe Castille.

Her first solo exhibition took place on November 6, 1929, at La Galeria de Arte Moderno del Teatro Nacional, modern day Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City. In November 1930, Izquierdo's work was exhibited at the Art Center, 65 East Fifty-Sixth street, New York, where she was introduced as the first Mexican woman to exhibit in the USA.

Izquierdo stayed true to her Mexican culture by using the landscape and traditions of Mexico as inspirations for her artwork. Her canvases are a primitivist provincial simplicity, inspired by folk devotional art and French painters such as Henri Matisse and Manet. She died in 1955.

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• Lucie-Smith, Edward (1993). "6", Latin American Art, 106-108.