Covadonga Romero Rodríguez

Covadonga Romero Rodríguez died in Oviedo on 27 June 2018.

On 7 September 2004, along with Blanca Meruéndano Cantalapiedra, Mercedes Gómez Morán [es], Maruja Moutas Merás, Pepa Osorio [es], Rosario Areces González, and Amparo Cores Uría, Covadonga Romero Rodríguez received the Silver Medal of Asturias, a prize that is awarded annually by the government of the principality, in recognition of difficult work done by the first generation of women plastic artists linked to the 20th-century Asturian avant-garde.

In 1990 the producer of RTVE in Asturias commissioned a portrait of Severo Ochoa and his wife, which is in the Museo Jovellanos [es] in Gijón.

In 1958 she joined the group "Homenaje a Tamayo" with Jacinto Melcón, Jorge Valdés, and her husband Ruperto, with whom she exhibited in Oviedo, Gijón, and Avilés in 1964.

She exhibited for the first time in 1949, and subsequently participated in several solo and group exhibitions. These included ones with her husband Ruperto Álvarez Caravia in the Caja de Ahorros de Asturias and the Sala Nogal, both in Oviedo, in 1976 and 1983.

Her earliest work was done with modeling clay. She studied Artistic Drawing, Modeling and Molding, Artistic Stained Glass, and Ceramics at the School of Applied Arts and Artistic Trades of Oviedo, and won the Macián Award during her 1946 to 1949 courses.

Covadonga Romero Rodríguez (8 September 1917 – 27 June 2018) was a Spanish sculptor and painter, a pioneer of the women's avant-garde of Asturias.

Covadonga Romero Rodríguez was born in the parish of Boo, Aller, Spain on 8 September 1917. She began her artistic studies at the School of Applied Arts in Oviedo, where she had Víctor Hevia Granda [es] and Mariano Monedero del Río as teachers, among others.