{{Short description|Chilean visual artist (1920–1993)}} {{Expand Spanish|topic=bio}} {{Infobox person | name = Juanita Lecaros | image = Juana Lecaros Izquierdo.jpg | other_names = J. M Sorcale | birth_name = Juanita Lecaros Izquierdo | birth_date = August 20, 1920 | birth_place = Santiago, Chile | death_date = May 2, 1993 | death_place = Santiago, Chile | occupation = Painter, printmaker, engraver, poet, writer }} '''Juanita Lecaros Izquierdo''' (1920 – 1993) Chilean visual artist and poet.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Romera |first=Antonio R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=itVUjM1eXWEC&pg=PA142 |title=Historia De La Pintura Chilena |date=1951 |publisher=Andres Bello |pages=142 |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fMplAAAAMAAJ |title=Revista de estudios históricos |date=1987 |others=Instituto Chileno de Investigaciones Genealógicas |volume=32–33 |pages=179 |language=es}}</ref> She is known for her paintings, and engravings.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Meza |first=Marcelo Rodríguez |date=2010 |title=Doscientos años de Pintura Chilena |journal=Trilogía |language=es |volume=22 |issue=32}}</ref> Lecaros used the pseudonym '''J. M. Sorcale''' for writing her poetry.
== Biography == She studied art at the University of Chile between 1949 and 1953, where she was a student of Gustavo Carrasco in drawing, Laureano Ladrón de Guevara in mural painting and Eduardo Martínez Bonati in engraving.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Juana Lecaros |url=http://www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl/658/w3-article-40251.html |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=Artistas Visuales Chilenos, AVCh, MNBA}}</ref> She also took printmaking classes at Taller 99 with Bonati.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Juana Lecaros |url=http://www.mac.uchile.cl/virtual/l3/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030302020555/http://www.mac.uchile.cl/virtual/l3/ |archive-date=2003-03-02 |website=Museo De Arte Contemporáneo}}</ref> While attending university, she was a member of the "Grupo de Estudiantes Plásticos". Although Lecaros never traveled abroad, her works were exhibited in the United States, Brazil, and Italy.<ref name=":0" /> In parallel, she wrote poetry which she signed under the pseudonym J. M. Sorcale.
Her work can be found in the museum collections at the Museum of Modern Art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Juana Lecaros |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/3448 |access-date=2023-06-24 |website=The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) |language=en}}</ref>
== See also == * List of Chilean women artists
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