Julio Rosado del Valle (1922 - September 20, 2008), was an internationally known

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Early years

Rosado del Valle was born in

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and as a young child would always be drawing or painting. In his primary school his teachers recognized his artistic talents. After graduating from high school, Rosado del Valle enrolled in the

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, where he took art classes under guidance of Cristobal Ruiz. In 1946, Rosado del Valle went to New York where he attended "The New School for Social Research" and studied under the guidance of the

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painter Mario Carreño and the muralist

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. A year later in 1947, Rosado del Valle moved to

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where he visited museums and art exhibitions. He later went to

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where he attended "The School of Fine Arts" in

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"Puerto Rican Arts Center"

In 1949, Rosado del Valle returned to Puerto Rico, where he worked in the Division of Community Education. He was also named resident artist of the

. In 1950, he was the co-founder, along with Torres Martino,

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, Felix Rodriguez Baez and

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, of the "Puerto Rican Arts Center". In 1952, he won a

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medal for mural painting in New York, sponsored by the Architectural League of New York and in 1957, Rosado del Valle was awarded a scholarship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 1965, Rosado del Valle won a gold medal for his art work, from the "Friends of Puerto Rico Society of New York". His work has been categorized as abstract expressionism and has been recognized locally and internationally.Puerto Rico Herald

Exhibitions

In 1967, Rosado del Valle represented Puerto Rico in the "

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Art Exhibition" celebrated in the Palace of Beautiful Arts in

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. In 1998, he won the art and culture award from the "New York State Puerto Rican Hispanic Task Force Conference." Rosado del Valle has had many international and local exhibits, including in the

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(1982), The Museum of Contemporary Art (1988) and The Luigi Marrozzini Gallery (1993) in

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, and in the

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and

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Later years

In the year 2002, a fire completely destroyed a warehouse in Carolina in which he had stored hundreds of his paintings. The University of Puerto Rico bestowed upon him an honorary Doctorate Degree in Humanities in 2004. Until he was no longer able, Julio Rosado del Valle got up every morning and painted in his house, which was located in

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, and then he went to his paint shop in Cataño to work. He died in

in September 2008. A retrospective of his work opened at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR) in late 2008.El Nuevo Dia

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