Escogedoras De Café
Escogedoras de café (Coffee Pickers) (1939) is a painting by the Ecuadorian social realist artist Alba Calderón. In this tropical-colored painting, peasants are toiling on a coffee plantation overseen by a majordomo with a sheathed machete. The peasants' faces are not shown or are covered by sombreros. 1939 paintings {{20C-painting-stub ...
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Alba Calderón
Alba Calderón de Gil (July 27, 1908 – 1992) was an Ecuadorian social realist painter, leftist activist, and feminist. She founded the movement for the recognition of women's rights in Ecuador. Alba Calderón was born in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Esmeraldas and died in Guayaquil. Personal life In 1933 Alba Calderón was introduced to the novelist Enrique Gil Gilbert of the "Guayaquil Group" by Demetrio Aguilera Malta. Calderón married Gil Gilbert in 1934. Gil Gilbert's best friend and fellow social realist writer Joaquín Gallegos Lara was the best man at the ceremony. Calderón and Gil Gilbert had two sons: Enrique Gil Calderón, Enrique Gil Calderon, a choral director, and Antonio Gil Calderon, a doctor and businessman. Communist life and exile In 1953 the Communist Party of Ecuador sent Alba Calderón as a delegate to the Third Congress of the International Federation of Women, to fight for peace and the defense of women and children. She then organized the Union of Women ...
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