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Elena Izcue
Born
Elena Izcue Cobián

April 19, 1889
Lima, Peru
DiedSeptember 27, 1970
Lima, Peru
Other namesElena de Izcue Cobián
EducationNational Superior Autonomous School of Fine Arts, Lima,
Académie de la Grande Chaumière
Occupation(s)Illustrator, graphic artist, painter, educator, textile designer

Elena Izcue (née Elena Izcue Cobián;[1] 1889–1970) was a Peruvian illustrator, graphic artist, painter, educator, and textile designer.[2][3] She was known for her modern decorative art and designs that celebrated a pre-Columbian art aesthetic.[2][4][5][6]

Early life and education

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Elena Izcue Cobián was born in 1889, in Lima, Peru; she was a twin and her sister was Victoria.[7] Their parents were María Antolina Cobián, and José Rafael de Izcue.[7] At a very young age, both daughters had to work, and they worked as teachers.

In 1910, Izcue was appointed professor of drawing at the School Center of Callao. In the publication La Escuela Moderna (1914), she designed the cover using pre-Columbian elements.

In 1919, she began her studies at the National Superior Autonomous School of Fine Arts, Lima.[8][9] She was a student of Daniel Hernández Morillo and José Sabogal. While in school she became interested in pre-Hispanic art, and met Philip Ainsworth Means, an American anthropologist working as the director of the archaeology section of the National Museum of Peru.[10] This connection to Means allowed her access to view the pre-Columbian pieces in the museum.

Career

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She published two volumes of the book, Peruvian Art in School: a Manual for Teaching Drawing in Peruvian Schools (1926 and 1929) (Spanish: El arte peruano en la escuela: un manual para la enseñar deldibujo en las escuelas peruanos), which was well received by Peruvian president Augusto B. Leguía, and Izcue was awarded a two-year pension to study in Paris.[11] She traveled with her twin sister Victoria Izcue to Paris, where they visited various workshops to help them establish a decorative arts practice.[11] In 1933, she continued her studies for a year at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and under painter Fernand Léger.[5] The sisters travelled for a month to New York City in 1935, for an exhibition of their work shown alongside archeological works from Peru at the Fuller Building, and after they returned to Paris, where they remained until 1938 due to the looming threat of World War II.[11][12] On their way home to Peru, they stopped in New York City to advise on the design the Peruvian Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair.[11]

In the summer of 1939, they arrived in Lima.[11] By 1940 the National Workshop of Applied Graphic Arts was formed in Lima, under the direction of Elena and the administration of Victoria.[11] She continued this teaching until 1950, after in which she dedicated the next twenty years to the creation of her own work of textile designs, paintings, and drawings.[11]

Death and legacy

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She died in September 27, 1970, in Lima. Her artwork can be found in museum collections, including at the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado;[4] and the Museo de Arte de Lima in Lima, Peru.[13]

In 2024, at the 60th Venice Biennale Izcue's artwork was posthumously shown alongside other artists from Peru, including José Sabogal, Julia Codesido, Santiago Yahuarcani (born 1960), Rember Yahuarcani (born 1985), and Violeta Quispe (born 1989).[14]

Publications

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  • La Escuela Moderna (in Spanish). Elena Izcue (cover artist). 1914.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Larco Herrera, Rafael, ed. (1923). La leyenda de Manco Capac (in Spanish).[15]
  • Izcue, Elena (1926). El arte peruano en la escuela: un manual para la enseñar deldibujo en las escuelas peruanos [Peruvian Art in School: a Manual for Teaching Drawing in Peruvian Schools] (in Spanish). Vol. I. Paris: Editorial Excelsior.[16]
  • Izcue, Elena (1929). El arte peruano en la escuela: un manual para la enseñar deldibujo en las escuelas peruanos [Peruvian Art in School: a Manual for Teaching Drawing in Peruvian Schools] (in Spanish). Vol. II. Paris: Editorial Excelsior.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Elena Izcue Cobián". Venezia News. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  2. ^ a b Schulman, Miller (2022). "Elena Izcue". AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  3. ^ "Elena Izcue [PE-MALI-AAP-XEI]". Archivo MALI. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  4. ^ a b "Fabric sample with Pre-columbian inspired designs". Denver Art Museum. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  5. ^ a b Vaisman, Rebeca (2022-05-31). "Elena Izcue, icono del diseño latinoamericano del siglo XX". Architectural Digest (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  6. ^ Sullivan, Megan A. (2023-01-01). "A Taste for the LocalElena Izcue and the Making of a Peruvian Decorative Style". Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. 5 (1): 11–29. doi:10.1525/lavc.2023.5.1.11.
  7. ^ a b Majluf, Natalia (1999). Elena Izcue: el arte precolombino en la vida moderna (in Spanish). Museo de Arte de Lima. p. 27. ISBN 978-84-930522-7-0.
  8. ^ Moore, Melisa (December 18, 2013). José Carlos Mariátegui’s Unfinished Revolution: Politics, Poetics, and Change in 1920s Peru. Bucknell University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-61148-463-2.
  9. ^ Vázquez, Oscar E. (2020-05-28). "8) The First Decade of Peru's National School of Fine Arts". Academies and Schools of Art in Latin America. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-18753-4 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ "Philip Ainsworth Means" (PDF). Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society: 35–37. April 1945. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-05-04.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h "El arte peruano en la escuela - II". ICAA Documents Project en Español · ICAA/MFAH. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
  12. ^ "Peruvian Art Used In Modern Designs; Izcue Sisters to Display Their Assimulation of Ancient Symbolism Here". The New York Times. 1935-11-17. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
  13. ^ "Elena Izcue". Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  14. ^ Carlos Fangacio Arakaki, Juan (2024-04-18). "El Perú en la Bienal de Venecia: por qué se espera una participación histórica, inédita y más diversa que nunca". El Comercio (in Spanish). ISSN 1605-3052. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
  15. ^ ""Manco Cápac - Leyenda Nacional" [PE-AAP-XEI-3.2-11]". Archivo MALI. Varidades. June 1923. Retrieved 2025-01-29.
  16. ^ "El arte peruano en la escuela - I". ICAA Documents Project en Español · ICAA/MFAH. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
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