Modesto Delgado Rodas
Modesto Delgado Rodas | |
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 Delgado c. 1920 | |
| Born | 2 October c. 1880 Villeta, Paraguay |
| Died | 14 May 1963 (aged 82–83) Villeta, Paraguay |
Cause of death | Suicide |
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| Spouse |
Marietta Vicario (m. 1924) |
| Children | 1 |
Modesto Delgado Rodas (2 October c. 1880 – 14 May 1963) was a Paraguayan painter and educator.[1][2][3] Delgado was known for his nudes, a rarity in Paraguay during the period, as well as his landscapes and portraits.[1][4]
Early life and education
[edit]Delgado was born 2 October c. 1880[a] in Villeta, Paraguay to Daniel Delgado and Eugenia Rodas.[2][6] One of five brothers, Delgado was the brother of the sculptor Salvador Delgado Rodas.[2][7]
Delgado was educated at Colegio Nacional de la Capital and at the Paraguayan Gymnasium (Spanish: Gimnasio Paraguay) where he studied painting and drawing under Eduardo Sívori and Juan A. Samudio.[2][3][8] In 1903, Delgado held his first exhibition in Asunción.[2]
In the early 1900s, Delgado travelled to Buenos Aires where he studied under Eduardo Sívori at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes.[2][3][9] Returning to Paraguay in 1907, Delgado was awarded a scholarship to study in Rome in 1913.[2][5] Delgado studied drawing, painting, and decorative arts at an unnamed academy in Rome, as well as the Brera Academy in Milan.[2] During this period Delgado met and married the painter Marietta Vicario.[2]
Career
[edit]In the 1920s, Delgado and Vicario settled in Detroit where he taught drawing and Spanish.[2] Delgado exhibited in Washington, D.C. in 1926 and 1928.[2][10] The family later returned to Paraguay and settled in Villeta however, Vicario soon returned to the United States with their daughter.[2] Delgado continued to exhibited in the United States with an exhibition in Baltimore in 1930, and in Cincinnati in 1931.[2]
In Villeta, Delgado began teaching and is known to have taught the painter and educator Ofelia Echagüe Vera.[2][11] From 1933 to 1935, Delgado participated in the Salón de Primavera.[2] Delgado as known for his nudes, which the art critic Josefina Plá stated that he was the only Paraguayan artist to regularly paint nudes during the first half of the 20th century.[1][4] Delgado was also known for his landscapes and portraits.[4]
Personal life
[edit]In 1924, Delgado married Marietta Vicario, an American painter, with whom he had one daughter.[2]
On 14 May 1963 Delgado died by suicide at his parent's house in Villeta, aged between 82 and 83.[2]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Presentarán libro sobre pintor paraguayo". Cultura (in Spanish). Asunción, Paraguay: Secretaria Nacional de Cultura Paraguay. 9 August 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Ruiz Díaz, Amalia (2011). Modesto Delgado Rodas. Serie Grandes Pintores Paraguayos (in Spanish). Asunción, Paraguay: Fondec, Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes. ISBN 9789995323974. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Rodas, Modesto Delgado (Paraguayan artist, 1886-1963)". Union List of Artist Names Online. Los Angeles, California: J. Paul Getty Trust. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 Bordón, Eduarda (4 October 2011). "Pintor paraguayo: Modesto Delgado Rodas". ABC Color (in Spanish). Asunción, Paraguay. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- 1 2 Rivarola, Milda; Jiménez Frei, Cheryl; Escobar, Ticio; Chase, Beatriz; Corcuera, Ruth; Blinder, Olga (13 May 2019). "Paraguay, Republic of [República del Paraguay]". Grove Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- 1 2 "DELGADO RODAS, MODESTO". Forjadores del Paraguay: diccionario biográfico (in Spanish) (1 ed.). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Quevedo de Ediciones. 2000. ISBN 9789992580714. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- ↑ "Salvador Delgado Rodas - Salvador Rodas". Catálogo das Artes (in Portuguese). Brazil. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- ↑ Gutiérrez Viñuales, Rodrigo (1996). "Arte de los países del Cono Sur. La irrupción de las vanguardias (1920-1960)". Historia del Arte Iberoamericano (PDF). Madrid, Spain: Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos.
- ↑ "Art in Paraguay". Bulletin of the Pan American Union. LXIX (11). Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union: 847–853. November 1935. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
- ↑ Cardozo, Lisandro (2005). "DELGADO RODAS, MODESTO". Diccionario de las artes visuales del Paraguay (in Spanish). Asunción, Paraguay: Fondec, Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes. ISBN 99925-907-5-0.
- ↑ "Exposición didáctica de las obras de la artista Ofelia Echagüe en el ISBA". Diario HOY (in Spanish). Paraguay. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2026.
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