 Diego Rivera described her at her first individual exhibition as "one of the most appealing figures in the art scene in Mexico".He often described her as "one of the best at the academy" and many publications reviewed the 1929 solo exhibition highlighting Rivera exclamation that Izquierdo "was the only real artist with merit" at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (Academy of Fine Arts) (Craven).Frankfurt, Vienna, Dallas, 1987-88, showed a group of striking paintings by Maria Izquierdo (1902-55) that announced to a non-Mexican audience the powerful presence of another painter of almost equal stature and originality.