Marina nunez del prado biography of donald

AAUW’s national office in Washington, D.C., is a piece of history — not for its architecture but for the amazing artifacts it houses, including a sculpture from gifted artist and 1940–41 AAUW International Fellow Marina Núñez del Prado, who passed away in 1995. She is considered one of the most successful Latin American artists, and before she received her fellowship in 1940, Núñez del Prado had exhibitions in Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, France, and Chile. She was also named one of the “Who’s Who in Latin America” by scholar Percy Alvin Martin.

On September 23, 1940, Núñez del Prado arrived in New York City via boat from Bolivia. She studied at the Art Students League and spent much of her time making 60-inch nude sculptures in clay. She also developed her casting techniques at the Ettl Studios. Núñez del Prado referred to New York as her second home and became “personally acquainted with all the new movements of modern art, whose center of action” was in the United States.

While in New York, she wrote countless letters to Mary H. Smith, secretary of the AAUW fellowships committee. The correspondence shows her driven nature to persevere through hardships. Núñez del Prado was rejected in her first fellowship application, but because she had an unwavering dedication to improv

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