María Luisa Pacheco

María Luisa Pacheco
Born
María Luisa Mariaca Dietrich

September 22, 1919
DiedApril 21, 1982 (aged 62)
EducationAcademia de Bellas Artes, La Paz
Known forPainting, Mixed media
StyleAbstract expressionism
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowships (1957, 1959,1960); First Prize, Municipal Salon (La Paz, 1953)
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María Luisa Pacheco (22 September 1919 – 21 April 1982) was a Bolivian painter and mixed-media artist who immigrated to the United States. Despite her 20-year later career in New York, she was much more influential in Latin American art than that of the U.S.