María del Adalid
María de los Dolores del Adalid y González Garrido (better known as María del Adalid González and María del Adalid Garrido; Madrid, 1873 - A Coruña , 1930) was a Spanish painter and the first person named an honorary member of the Royal Galician Academy.[1] She had a very good relationship with the painter Francisco Llorens Díaz, a disciple of Carlos de Haes.
Early life and education
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She was the only daughter of the writer Francisca González Garrido (Fanny Garrido) and the musician Marcial del Adalida, who died when she was eight years old. The family residence was located in the manor house of Lóngora, in the Mariñas Coruñesas. It was for several years the center of the musical and literary life of A Coruña. Among the people who frequently visited Lóngora were the writers Emilia Pardo Bazán, Sofía Casanova, the painters Germán Taibo and Francisco Llorens Díaz, as well as Pan de Soraluce, Alfredo Tella, and Alejandro Pérez Lugín. Adalid spent her childhood in this cultural environment, receiving an artistic and musical education.[2][3] Adalid studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, specialising in composition and practising other genres such as landscape and portraiture.
Career
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She received honorable mentions at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts of 1904, 1906 and 1909. She participated in the Regional Art Exhibition of A Coruña in 1912, in the Galician Art Exhibition of A Coruña in 1917, and in the Galician Art Exhibition of Buenos Aires in 1919.[4] She was also one of the first members —with number 47— of the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors (AEPE), founded in 1910.
On 12 December 1928, on the advice of Félix Estrada Catoyra, Adalid deposited her father's important library and archive (279 bound volumes and 2,729 registered musical pieces) in the Royal Galician Academy.[1] In the words of historian Xosé Ramón Barreiro, it was "a unique and invaluable musical collection, more important than that of the National Library". She also donated the library of her grandfather (a military doctor), for which she was named an honorary academician of the Royal Galician Academy on 12 May 1929, the first person in that category.[5][6][7]
Personal life
[edit]She married José Ruiz de Huidobro, a doctor in Medicine and Pharmacy, on July 19, 1919, at the Monterreal Castle in Baiona.[8]
Death and legacy
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Maria del Adalid died at her home at number 26 Tabernas Street, in A Coruña, in 1930.[8][9]
In March 1926, Adalid donated a piece of land she owned in Montrove for the creation of a school, which she helped to build and which bears her name.[10]
Adalid bequeathed the family Lóngora manor to the Salesians to build a farm-school. Later, it became the property of the City Council of Oleiros and the headquarters of the University Institute of the Environment of the University of A Coruña.[1][11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Boletíns" [Newsletters]. Real Academia Galega. 11 April 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2024 – via web.archive.org.
- ^ "María de los Dolores del Adalid y González Garrido. Socia Nº 47" [María de los Dolores del Adalid y González Garrido. Member number 47]. Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores (in Spanish). 1 December 2016.
- ^ "Fanny Garrido, la escritora 'Eulalia de Liáns'" [Fanny Garrido, the writer 'Eulalia de Liáns']. grupo-organistrum.com (in European Spanish).
- ^ Pereira, F. (24 July 2009). "Mulheres pintoras na arte galega (segunda metade do século XIX e primeiro terzo do século XX). Unha historia de invisibilidade" [Women painters in Galician art (second half of the 19th century and first third of the 20th century). A story of invisibility] (PDF). Consello da Cultura Galega.
- ^ "Arquivo Marcial del Adalid" [Archive Marcial del Adalid]. arquivo.galiciana.gal. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ^ "La Academia y la Diputación catalogarán el fondo musical" [The Academy and the Provincial Council will catalogue the musical collection]. La Opinión (A Coruña) (in Spanish). 19 May 2008.
- ^ Membros de honra da Academia. Histórico (Honorary Members of the Academy. History), academia.gal
- ^ a b "Roteiro cultural e literario" [Cultural and literary itinerary] (PDF). Concello de Oleiros. 2017.
- ^ "Vida" [Life]. Marcial del Adalid (in Galician). Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ "La base, que estaba situada en una antigua escuela, será un centro de ocio juvenil" [The base, which was located in a former school, will be a youth leisure center]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Presentación do Instituto Universitario de Medio Ambiente" [Presentation of the University Institute of Environment]. www.udc.es. Retrieved 31 August 2024.