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Escogedoras de café
Escogedoras de café (Coffee Pickers) (1939) is a painting by the Ecuadorian social realist artist Alba Calderón. It is one of her most remarkable and complex paintings. In this tropical-colored painting, peasants are toiling on a coffee plantation overseen by a majordomo with a sheathed machete. The peasants are portrayed as a collective, individuality does not matter; that is why their faces are not shown or are covered by sombreros.
Ecuador. Her works were exhibited in Quito, Lima, Santiago, Caracas, New York City, and Paris.
In 2004 the museum of the Central Bank of Ecuador in Guayaquil acquired some of Calderón's paintings from her son Enrique Gil Calderón. Other paintings can be found at the House of Ecuadorian Culture. Private owners, such as the art critic Juan Hadatty Saltos and Cecilia Hasing, have also lent their private collections for exhibitions.
One of Calderón's most remarkable and complex paintings is "Escogedoras de café (