Clara Ledesma Terrazas (5 March 1924 – 25 May 1999)[1] was a Dominican-born American artist Born in Santiago de los Caballeros, she attended Escuela Ercilia Pepín and in her teenage years studied art under Yoryi Morel at his self-named Academia Yoryi.

During her stay in Europe, Ledesma met Bolivian native artist Walter Terrazas, who returned to Santo Domingo with her in 1954.

"She studied painting at prestigious academies abroad and then returned to the country where she presented works that she had conducted in Europe under the influence of Miro, Chagall and Paul Klee, among others.

"[4] In Santo Domingo, she worked closely with other important Dominican artists, including Gilberto Hernández Ortega, Josep Gausachs and Jaime Colson.

"[6] "Ledesma also touched on social realism in her work, with her most noted series underlining the racial inequities of the time.”[3] "She tried to represent native paintings, with concern, but away from the drama.