Mabel Alvarez

Mabel Alvarez ( born November 28, 1891 Oahu, Hawaii, † March 13, 1985 in Los Angeles ) was an American painter of Impressionism with Spanish origin.

Life

Mabel Alvarez was born as the youngest of five children on November 28, 1891 on the island of Oahu. Her father, Luis Fernández Álvarez, came from Spain, emigrated to Cuba in the United States, where he became wealthy through real estate business in Los Angeles. He was in leprosy research together with Father Damien a name, and her mother Clementine Setza came from a prominent family in St. Paul, Minnesota. 1906 the family moved to Berkeley, California, and in 1909 to Los Angeles, where Mabel Alvarez went to the Los Angeles High School. Your first drawing lessons they received at the art teacher James Edwin McBurney - after Alvarez in San Diego won a gold medal a mural for the Panama - California exhibition - he told her urgently to continue studying. Álvarez studied at the prestigious Academy of Illustration and painting under William Cahill (1878-1924) and John Hubbard Rich (1876-1954) in Los Angeles. In their style of painting, the artist tried a harmonious mediation between ideal and reality. In addition, Alvarez worked as an illustrator, artist and graphic artist.

Relationship

• Her brother, Dr. Walter C. Alvarez (1884-1978), was known as " America's Family Doctor " in the U.S. through his columns as.
• Luis Walter Alvarez (1911-1988), a nephew, was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his decisive contribution to elementary particle physics, in particular his discovery of a large number of resonance states, made ​​possible through his development of techniques with the hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis.