Lily Garafulic

Lily Garafulic Yankovic (May 14, 1914 – March 15, 2012) was a Chilean sculptor, a member of the Generation of 40 (Generación del 40) artists, and museum director. Garafulic was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York City in 1944.

Career Lily Garafulic began attending the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile in 1934, where she studied under the sculptor Lorenzo Domínguez. Among Garafulic's most noted works are statues of sixteen prophets placed on the top of Lourdes Basilica in Santiago, Chile.

She was a member of the Generation of 40 (Generación del 40) artists, which included other Chilean sculptors, including Marta Colvin.

Garafulic became a professor of sculpture at the University of Chile in 1951. Her students included Sergio Badilla Castillo and Raúl Valdivieso.

Awards 1936: Third Prize of the Salón Oficial. Santiago de Chile. 1937: Medal IV Centenary of the city of Valparaíso, Chile. 1940: Second Prize for Sculpture, VIII Salón de Verano, Viña del Mar. 1941: First Prize for Sculpture, IV Centenario Fundación de Santiago. 1942: Second Prize for Sculpture, LIV Salón Oficial. Santiago de Chile. 1943: First Prize, Salón de Verano. Viña del Mar. 1944: Guggenheim Fellowship, New York City