Julio Larraz

Julio Fernandez Larraz was born in Cuba on 12 March 1944.{{r|mark|page=457|grove|page2=105}} His family were owners of the Cuban newspaper La Discusión. In 1961, the year of the failed American invasion of Cuba, the family fled the island for Miami, Florida, later moving to Washington, D.C., and then to New York City.{{r|mark|page=457}} Larraz first worked as a political caricaturist and cartoonist, signing his work "Julio Fernandez". His caricatures of political figures such as Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and Richard Nixon were published in Esquire magazine,{{cite web | url=https://classic.esquire.com/article/1974/6/1/wed-get-along-without-you-very-well | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203030819/https://classic.esquire.com/article/1974/6/1/wed-get-along-without-you-very-well | archive-date=2024-02-03 | title=We'd Get Along Without You Very Well | Esquire | JUNE 1974 }} The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine,https://web.archive.org/web/20240203012854/https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/md/md30732061114.jpg {{Bare URL image|date=August 2024}}https://web.archive.org/web/20240203075012/https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/md/md30890361911.jpg {{Bare URL image|date=August 2024}} New York Magazine,{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HeACAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA55 | title=New York Magazine | date=12 August 1968 }}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CeECAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA58 | title=New York Magazine - Google Books | date=21 October 1968 }}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qtsCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA63 | title=New York Magazine | date=16 December 1968 }}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=peECAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA8 | title=New York Magazine | date=7 April 1969 }}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p9sCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA6 | title=New York Magazine - Google Books | date=13 January 1969 }}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D-ECAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA8 | title=New York Magazine | date=10 March 1969 }}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DeECAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA8 | title=New York Magazine - Google Books | date=24 March 1969 }}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=escDAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA8 | title=New York Magazine | date=29 September 1969 }}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YQwV5HONQqsC&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA7 | title=New York Magazine | date=6 October 1969 }}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=btYCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA10 | title=New York Magazine - Google Books | date=13 October 1969 }}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b9YCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA10 | title=New York Magazine - Google Books }}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fscDAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA6 | title=New York Magazine - Google Books }}https://books.google.com/books?id=5eICAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA8 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-OICAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA56 | title=New York Magazine - Google Books }}https://books.google.com/books?id=6eICAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA124 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}https://books.google.com/books?id=9eYCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA82 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}https://books.google.com/books?id=9cSu7ZgmE8UC&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22&pg=PA57 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}https://books.google.com/books?id=cOMCAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22julio%22+%22Fernandez%22+1974&pg=PA33 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}

Rolling Stone and The Washington Post. A caricature of Nixon as Louis XIV, captioned "L'état, c'est moi", was used on the cover of Time magazine.{{r|mark|page=457}}

White House Enemies or How We Made the Dean's List (Publisher: Signet / New American Library, 1973)

THE PERFECT WAGNERITE, A COMMENTARY ON THE NIBLUNG'S RING (Time-Life Records Special Edition, 1972){{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/perfectwagnerite0000unse_h5v0/mode/2up | title=The perfect wagnerite | date=1972 }}

Why they call it politics : a guide to America's Government (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , second edition, 1974) {{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/whytheycallitpol02sher/mode/2up | title=Why they call it politics : A guide to America's Government | date=1974 }}

The Saturday night special, and other guns with which Americans won the West, protected bootleg franchises, slew wildlife, robbed countless banks, shot husbands purposely and by mistake, and killed presidents--together with the debate over continuing same (New York, Charterhouse, 1973){{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/saturdaynightspe00sher | isbn=978-0-88327-016-5 | title=The Saturday night special, and other guns with which Americans won the West, protected bootleg franchises, slew wildlife, robbed countless banks, shot husbands purposely and by mistake, and killed presidents--together with the debate over continuing same | date=1973 | publisher=New York, Charterhouse }}

Julio Larraz's first solo exhibitions was in 1971 at the Pyramid Gallery in Washington D.C.{{cn|date=April 2020}} An exhibition of his work was held at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Boca Raton, Florida, in 1998.{{r|elisa}}

In 1976, Larraz's work was chosen for Exhibition of Works by Candidates for Art Awards at the American Academy of Art and Letters/National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. In 1985 Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC) was seen at the Grand Palais, Paris; and in 1992 Exposición arte cubano: Pasado y presente obra importante was exhibited at Gary Nader Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida.

In 1975, Larraz won the Cintas Foundation Fellowship from the Institute of International Education, New York. {{cite web | url=https://www.cintasfoundation.org/fellows/visual-artists | title=Visual Artists }}{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 1977, he was awarded the Acquisition Prize. Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Exhibition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Institute of Arts & Letters, New York.

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Elisa Turner (10 May 1998). [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/49829276/elisa-turner-10-may-1998-diary-of-a/ Diary of a Soul travels through tradition]. The Miami Herald, page 1840. Clipping on www.newspapers.com.

Joan M. Marter (editor) (2011). [https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&pg=RA2-PA105 The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art], volume 3: Kabakov-Ozette. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. {{isbn|9780195335798}}.

Mark S. Fuller (2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=_vmjCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA457 Never a Dull Moment: The Life of John Liggett Meigs]. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone Press. {{ISBN|9781632930736}}.

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• Jose Veigas-Zamora, Cristina Vives Gutierrez, Adolfo V. Nodal, Valia Garzon, Dannys Montes de Oca. Memoria: Cuban Art of the 20th Century. California/International Arts Foundation, 2001. {{ISBN|978-0-917571-11-4}}
• Jose Viegas. Memoria: Artes Visuales Cubanas Del Siglo Xx. California International Arts, 2004. {{ISBN|978-0-917571-12-1}} {{in lang|es}}
• Edward Lucie-Smith. Julio Larraz. Skiro, Milan, 2003. {{ISBN|88-8491-347-0}}

• [http://juliolarraz.com/ Julio Larraz Official Website]

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