Dora Puelma Francino de Fuenzalida (

Antofagasta Antofagasta () is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago. It is the capital of Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region. According to the 2015 census, the city has a population of 402,669. Once claimed by Bolivia follo ...

, March 22, 1898 -

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, April 1, 1972) was a Chilean painter, sculptor and writer who belonged to the

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. Her work was characterized by "fidelidad a la tradición pictórica del paisaje y las técnicas de la representación que siempre defendió por sobre las tendencias abstractas que se impusieron en su época" (fidelity to the pictorial tradition of landscape painting and the techniques of representation that she always defended over the abstract tendencies that prevailed in her time), which is why her work was included within Chilean pictorial naturalism that she approached mainly through the use of oil and watercolor techniques. After entering the School of Fine Arts, she was a student of

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, while in the field of sculpture, she was a disciple of Virginio Arias. Along with

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, and Miriam Sanfuentes, Puelma was one of the first six Chilean painters to exhibit her work at the beginning of the 20th century; particularly, Puelma did so collectively in 1914 during the (Women's Art Exhibition of the Women's Artistic Society) in Santiago, and later in the Official Salons of Santiago in 1916, where she also participated in 1919, 1925, 1927, 1938, 1942, 1943, 1947, 1948, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1955 and 1957. Puelma also participated in other group exhibitions, among them the one held at the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929–30, where she received the bronze medal in painting.

Selected works

Artworks in public collections

Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts The Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts ( or ), located in Santiago, Chile, is one of the major centers for Chilean art and for broader South American art. Established in 1880 (making it the oldest in South America), the organization is manage ...

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Drawing on paper, *
Paisaje

Oil on canvas Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or copper for several centuries. ...

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Mañana de primavera
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Books

* ''Pinceladas de Europa'', 1954

References

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