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(b. San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, Mexico, 1902; d. Mexico City, 1955). Izquierdo is know for her portraiture, still lives, and landscapes set in the villages of her childhood exploring themes of memory and identity. She married a soldier at age 14 and moved with her young family to Mexico City in 1923 where she attended the School of Painting and Sculpture. In 1927 she left her husband and enrolled full time in Academia de San Carlos under the directorship of Diego Rivera. It was through Rivera's support that she was given her first important exhibition in Mexico City at the Galeria de Art Moderno, in 1927. Other important exhibitions include the metropolitan Museum of Art's 1930 exhibition entitled Mexican Artists, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art, 1940. Izquierdo lived in Mexico City up until her death in 1955.
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