Maria Luisa Pacheco
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María Luisa Pacheco was a Bolivia
n painter who emigrated to the United States.
, she studied at the local Academia de Bellas Artes, later becoming a member of the faculty. In the late 1940s and until 1951, she worked at the newspaper La Razón as an illustrator and as the editor of their literary section. A scholarship from the Government of Spain allowed Pacheco to continue her studies in 1951 and 1952, as a graduate student at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid
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In 1956, Maria Luisa Pacheco was the recipient of three consecutive Fellowship Awards from the Guggenheim Foundation
in New York City. The first fellowship awarded coincided with an invitation to exhibit at the Museum of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington DC. As a result of both of those opportunities, Maria Luisa Pacheco moved to New York in 1956. The Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and also the OAS exhibit, each included the acquisition of a Maria Luisa Pacheco painting for their permanent art collections. Those paintings are currently exhibited in the art museums of those organizations, as part of the periodic rotation of their permanent collections.
Pacheco's abstract paintings are inspired by the native Quechua and Aymara people of Bolivia and the glaciers and peaks of the Andes Mountains.
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
n painter who emigrated to the United States.
Biography
Born at La PazLa Paz
Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of the La Paz Department, and the second largest city in the country after Santa Cruz de la Sierra...
, she studied at the local Academia de Bellas Artes, later becoming a member of the faculty. In the late 1940s and until 1951, she worked at the newspaper La Razón as an illustrator and as the editor of their literary section. A scholarship from the Government of Spain allowed Pacheco to continue her studies in 1951 and 1952, as a graduate student at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
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In 1956, Maria Luisa Pacheco was the recipient of three consecutive Fellowship Awards from the Guggenheim Foundation
Guggenheim Foundation
Guggenheim Foundation may refer to one of the following:*The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation funds the Guggenheim Museums.*The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards grants to scientists, scholars and artists....
in New York City. The first fellowship awarded coincided with an invitation to exhibit at the Museum of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington DC. As a result of both of those opportunities, Maria Luisa Pacheco moved to New York in 1956. The Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and also the OAS exhibit, each included the acquisition of a Maria Luisa Pacheco painting for their permanent art collections. Those paintings are currently exhibited in the art museums of those organizations, as part of the periodic rotation of their permanent collections.
Pacheco's abstract paintings are inspired by the native Quechua and Aymara people of Bolivia and the glaciers and peaks of the Andes Mountains.