(b. Cataño, Puerto Rico, 1922).
Julio Rosado del Valle studied at the University of Puerto Rico and at the New School for Social Research in New York. He also studied in Florence and Paris. He returned to Puerto Rico in 1949 and worked for the Division of Community Education making posters and illustrating books. In 1950 he founded, with Lorenzo Homar (b. 1913), Rafael Tufiño (b. 1922), and others the Centro de Arte Puertorriqueño. He was a distinguished member of Puerto Rico's Generación del 50 (Generation of 1950), a group of artists dedicated to social change. In 1957 he returned to New York on a Guggenheim Fellowship and soon changed course in favor of abstraction, away from social realism. His drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures show organic forms with abstract elements. His silk-screen print titled Chair (1993) flattens the volumes of a seat into bold areas of color. Rosado del Valle was one of the first to introduce abstraction to Pu
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