Julio Fernández Larraz (born 12 March 1944) is a
Cuban artist. He has lived in the United States since 1961.[2]: 457 He first worked as a political
caricaturist and
cartoonist, signing his work Julio Fernandez. In the 1970s, he began to paint and changed his signature to Julio Larraz.[2]: 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)[24]
Why they call it politics : a guide to America's Government (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , second edition, 1974) [25]
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)[26]
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.
Awards
In 1975, Larraz won the Cintas Foundation Fellowship from the Institute of International Education, New York. [28]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.
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.
ISBN978-0-917571-11-4
Jose Viegas. Memoria: Artes Visuales Cubanas Del Siglo Xx. California International Arts, 2004.
ISBN978-0-917571-12-1(in Spanish)
Edward Lucie-Smith. Julio Larraz. Skiro, Milan, 2003.
ISBN88-8491-347-0