Female Artists and the Spanish Pavilion in the International Exhibition in 1937

This article aims to elucidate why the majority of Spanish female artists did not participate in the Spanish Pavilion of the International Exhibition in 1937. Only two of them took part in this event. However, there were a lot of female artists in that period. In fact, some artists had a promising career, but it seems that they did not dare to be involved in this exhibition in the Spanish Pavilion. In some cases, the no participation of some female artists could have been a simple coincidence, although it should be pointed out that there could be other reasons related to Spanish society and artists’ lives that determined the limited female intervention in this PavilionThis article is linked to a scholarship holder called “University Teaching Training Programme 2012” (“FPU 2012”) of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and the research project "50 Years of Art in the Spanish Silver Century (1931-1981) (P.E. de I+D+i, Ref: HAR2014-53871-P).Peer reviewe