DOUBLE ORPHANS. CASTILIAN ARTISTS IN THE POSTWAR PLASTIC ARTS

Mª Cecilia Martín (1920-2020), Mª Francisca Dapena (1924-1995), Petra Hernández (1925-2014), Ana Jiménez (1926-2013), Castorina F. Francisco (1928-2019), Ana Mª García Cavero (1932-), Herminia de Lucas (1934-2015), Isabel Villar (1934-), Blanca Prieto (1934-), Gloria Torner (1934-), Teresa Gancedo (1937-) and Gloria Alcahud (1937-)... they are not all the ones who really are, but a significant sample of Castilian-Leonese artists who began their journey in the Spanish postwar plastic arts, living a double orphanhood: Orphaned of privileges for the mere fact of being women; and orphaned of a solid model of woman artist, in whom to be inspired. All of them, together with their life stories and artistic trajectories, carefully woven, constitute a female genealogy of artists that serves as a reference and/or inheritance to other later generations of women immersed in the field of plastic arts in Spain, and more specifically in Castilla y Leon, so that they can verify that they are not, nor are they orphans. Cristina García Cuesta holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Valladolid (2020), with the thesis entitled La historia del arte en femenino: la presencia de las mujeres en el entorno artístico castellano-leonés (1890-1959), awarded in the II edition of the Awards for Excellence in TFG, TFM and Doctoral Thesis in Research in Equality and Gender Violence of the UVa, November 2021. She is an associate professor in the Department of History of Art of the University of Valladolid, coordinator and teacher in the Interuniversity Program of the Experience in Palencia and Guardo and teacher at the Popular University of Palencia. Her lines of research are related to the study of the presence of women in the visual arts in Spain, specifically in Castilla y León in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of the following publications: GARCÍA CUESTA, CRISTINA and CARMEN GARCÍA COLMENARES (2009). “Maestras asesinadas y depuradas. Otra mirada” in Carmen García Colmenares (coord.). La represión del magisterio en Palencia. Los hilos de la memoria, Palencia: ARMH, pp. 167-198. GARCÍA CUESTA, CRISTINA (2011). “Remedios Varo: Tejiendo sueños” and ”Ángeles Santos: Amita y las muñecas” in Mª Teresa Alario (Coord.), Catálogo de la Exposición Figuras de la Exclusión. Patio Herreriano Museum of Spanish Contemporary Art, Valladolid, pp. 148-151. ISBN: 978-8496286207. GARCÍA CUESTA, CRISTINA (2017). “Sin protagonismo y enmudecidas. La mujer en el franquismo y su silencio en el arte”. RAUDEN: Journal of Women's Studies no. 5, pp. 22-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v5i0.1975. GARCÍA CUESTA, CRISTINA (2022). “María Paz Jiménez (1909-1975): El exilio y su paso sigiloso por la plástica española de postguerra” in XIV Congreso virtual sobre Historia de las Mujeres. Association of Friends of the Diocesan Historical Archive of Jaén. At: https://www.revistacodice.es/publi_virtuales/xiv_congreso_mujeres/xiv_congreso_mujer.htm. Featured subject Thema: DSB: Literary Studies in General. Subject: AFC: Painting. Subject: DSBH Literary studies (1900-2000). IBIC Subject Spotlight: DS: Literature. History and criticism. IBIC Subject: AF: Forms of Artistic Expression. IBIC Subject: AFC: Painting.