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image from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-4.html: ‘Julio de Diego (1900 – 1979) born in Madrid, was a Spanish-born American visual artist. In 1924 Diego immigrated to the United States. He found work as a commercial artist, drawing fashion illustrations. In 1926 he started to focus more on painting, and began to garner awards; he also moved to Chicago at this time where he first exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, where he also had a one-man exhibition in 1935. He moved, this time to Mexico, where he collected native artifacts and took inspiration from the muralist Carlos Mérida. During World War II he supported the American Artist’s Congress which was fighting censorship in Germany and Italy and before it was in opposition against General Franco. After the war he taught at the University of Denver and the Artist Equity Workshop. Later on he settled in Sarasota, Florida.’

image from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-4.html: ‘Julio de Diego (1900 – 1979) born in Madrid, was a Spanish-born American visual artist. In 1924 Diego immigrated to the United States. He found work as a commercial artist, drawing fashion illustrations. In 1926 he started to focus more on painting, and began to garner awards; he also moved to Chicago at this time where he first exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, where he also had a one-man exhibition in 1935. He moved, this time to Mexico, where he collected native artifacts and took inspiration from the muralist Carlos Mérida. During World War II he supported the American Artist’s Congress which was fighting censorship in Germany and Italy and before it was in opposition against General Franco. After the war he taught at the University of Denver and the Artist Equity Workshop. Later on he settled in Sarasota, Florida.’

#Fortune for #DECEMBER 1949
#Illustration by Julio de Diego (1900-1979)
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Cover of *Fortune*, December 1949
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A tall, slender barefoot woman in a dirty teal sleeveless dress stands with her back to us at the edge of a rocky opening. Her right hand rests at her hip as she leans forward, peering into a cavern whose mouth frames pale water and low horizon under a mottled sky. Jagged brown cliffs flank the scene; at lower right lies a broken classical column with a curled volute, and stacked stone blocks appear at lower left. The palette is cool teal, earthen brown, and gray, with crisp, simplified forms and strong contours. Spanish-born American artist Julio de Diego’s title points to “space” not as outer galaxies but as the charged void before the figure: a threshold between enclosure and expanse. The toppled column suggests a fallen order, while the woman’s poised stance with curiosity overriding fear signals modernity’s leap into the unknown. He builds the drama from oppositions: interior cave and exterior sea, ruin and possibility, gravity and imagination. The pared architecture and stylized anatomy reflect a modernist vocabulary inflected with the era’s taste for the surreal, turning landscape into psychology where we confront our own brink. Made in 1936, this gouache entered the University of Oregon’s collection through U.S. government allocation from New Deal art projects, aligning it with the Federal Art Project’s goal to sustain artists and bring art to the public during the Depression. Born in Madrid, Spain in 1900, de Diego immigrated to the United States in 1924 and settled in Chicago, where by the mid-1930s he was exhibiting at the Art Institute of Chicago. The period saw him refine a personal idiom mixing architecture, theater, and dreams as we see here in the way ruins, figure, and horizon interlock. In context of the moment of global uncertainty during the 1930s, "The Fascination of Space" captures an artist (and age) testing the edges of what comes next.

A tall, slender barefoot woman in a dirty teal sleeveless dress stands with her back to us at the edge of a rocky opening. Her right hand rests at her hip as she leans forward, peering into a cavern whose mouth frames pale water and low horizon under a mottled sky. Jagged brown cliffs flank the scene; at lower right lies a broken classical column with a curled volute, and stacked stone blocks appear at lower left. The palette is cool teal, earthen brown, and gray, with crisp, simplified forms and strong contours. Spanish-born American artist Julio de Diego’s title points to “space” not as outer galaxies but as the charged void before the figure: a threshold between enclosure and expanse. The toppled column suggests a fallen order, while the woman’s poised stance with curiosity overriding fear signals modernity’s leap into the unknown. He builds the drama from oppositions: interior cave and exterior sea, ruin and possibility, gravity and imagination. The pared architecture and stylized anatomy reflect a modernist vocabulary inflected with the era’s taste for the surreal, turning landscape into psychology where we confront our own brink. Made in 1936, this gouache entered the University of Oregon’s collection through U.S. government allocation from New Deal art projects, aligning it with the Federal Art Project’s goal to sustain artists and bring art to the public during the Depression. Born in Madrid, Spain in 1900, de Diego immigrated to the United States in 1924 and settled in Chicago, where by the mid-1930s he was exhibiting at the Art Institute of Chicago. The period saw him refine a personal idiom mixing architecture, theater, and dreams as we see here in the way ruins, figure, and horizon interlock. In context of the moment of global uncertainty during the 1930s, "The Fascination of Space" captures an artist (and age) testing the edges of what comes next.

"The Fascination of Space" by Julio de Diego (Spanish-American) - Gouache on paper / 1936 - Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, Oregon) #WomenInArt #art #JulioDeDiego #Diego #artwork #artText #WPAart #ModernArt #surrealism #surrealist #UofO #JSMA #UniversityofOregon #JordanSchnitzerMuseumofArt

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@lronlacy.bsky.social
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#Fortune for #DECEMBER 1949
#Illustration by Julio de Diego (1900-1979)
Cover of *Fortune*, December 1949
#FortuneCover #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JulioDeDiego #graphicdesign #skyline #skyscrapers #architecture #cityscape
On de Diego: poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fort...

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