Rosario Cabrera

"Pioneering study that accompanied 1998 exhibition dedicated to the life and work of the enigmatic female painter who was the first Mexican woman to exhibit in Paris. Cabrera developed a career dedicated to teaching art to indigenous children, retiring eventually to anonymity. The essay by Tomás Zurian, complemented with a chronology by Carla Zurian, are first steps in deciphering the personality of this artist still shrouded in mystery"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.