Carmen Herrera

Carmen Herrera (May 31, 1915 – February 13, 2022) was a Cuban-American abstract, minimalist painter. She was born in Havana. She lived in New York City beginning in the mid-1950s. Herrera's abstract works brought her international recognition late in life. 
Herrera became known for her landscape abstract art based in Cuba such as "Blanco y Verde" (1959) which depicts landscape of the Cuban oceanside. Some of her work appears at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C..
Herrera showed her art many times at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles beginning in 1949. 
She turned 100 in May 2015. Herrera died at her Manhattan apartment on February 13, 2022 at the age of 106.