Lily Garafulic
Lily Garafulic Yankovic (May 14, 1914 – March 15, 2012) was a Chilean sculptor and museum professional of Croatian descent. She was a member of the Generation of 40 (Generación del 40) artists, which included other Chilean sculptors, including Marta Colvin.[1] Garafulic was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York City in 1944.[1] She served as the director of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts from 1973 until 1977.[1]
Garafulic was born in Antofagasta, Chile, on May 14, 1914.[1] She began attending the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile in 1934, where she studied under the sculptor Lorenzo Domínguez.[1] In 1944, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to New York City, where she studied at the New School of Social Research (now called The New School) and worked with the engraver William Hayter.[1]
Garafulic became a professor of sculpture at the University of Chile in 1951. Her students included Sergio Badilla Castillo and Raúl Valdivieso.[1] She became a professor emerita at the University of Chile in 1997.[1]
She received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas award in 1995.[1]
Garafulic died on March 15, 2012, at her home in the Parque Forestal section of Santiago, Chile, at the age of 97.[1]
References
External links
- Page about her work at the University of Chile (in Spanish)
- Entry for Lily Garafulic on the Union List of Artist Names