Focus on Mexico Blog

By Tere Ruiz

In May 2008 I wrote an article announcing the Art Exhibition that would take place at Hospicio Cabañas on Maria Izquierdo's paintings. Some of the people who came in our Focus on Mexico Programs in Lake Chapala, Mexico, between May and September that year had the rare opportunity to enjoy her paintings when we took the Sunday tour of Guadalajara

As you might recall, Maria Izquierdo was born in San Juan de Los Lagos, Jalisco in 1902 and being one of the most important Mexican painters of the twentieth Century, she even had an exhibition in the Arts Center of New York City around 1929 using the landscape and traditions of Mexico as inspirations for her artwork. Her work celebrates popular culture and daily life in rural Mexico, offering us a different vision of the Mexican art as a forefront woman and artist.

Now we are very proud to share with you that on July 2009, among other world-famous deceased artists, musicians and authors, Maria Izquierdo's name was chosen as the name one of the impact craters discovered on Mercury last October.

Maria Izquierdo's paintings are exhibited permanently in the Blaisten Museum in Mexico City, when not traveling around Mexico and other countries.

Other craters in Mercury were named after the following personalities:

Charles A. Eastman, a Native American (Sioux) author, physician, and reformer who helped found the Boy Scouts of America.

Ernest Hemingway, an American writer and journalist who had a significant influence on the development of 20th century fiction.

So hurray for our Maria Izquierdo, one of the most important artists from Jalisco, Mexico.

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