Julián Martínez Soto

Julián Martínez Soto (1921 – May 23, 2000), was a Spanish-born Mexican sculptor and painter. He created more than 200 sculptures in Spain, Italy, Mexico, and the United States. Soto left Spain and arrived in Mexico in June 1937 with the (English: Children of Morelia), a group of children of Spanish Republicans, intending to visit while the Spanish Civil War was ending. His family name is sometimes written as Soros, or Sotos due to journalistic and bibliographic errors.

Life and career Julián Martínez Soto was born in 1921, in Valencia, Spain. He was the son of a Republican teacher.

Soto attended the Mexico-Spain Industrial School in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico; and studied art at the National School of Fine Arts (now Academy of San Carlos) in Mexico City.

He worked as a painter at the Estudios Churubusco movie studio in 1949.

He died of a heart attack on May 23, 2000, in Mexico City.

List of works Mexico

Baja California

Lázaro Cárdenas, Ensenada Monument to Mestizaje (1981) Parque Xicoténcatl, Coyoacán Equestrian statue of Pancho Villa, , Benito Juárez (formerly located on Avenida División del Norte, Mexico City) Don Pelayo, Parque Asturias Statue of Heberto Castillo, General Archive of the Nation

Sonora

Statue of the Fisherman (1968), Guaymas Juan Navarrete Guerrero, Hermosillo José María Morelos, Boulevard Morelos, Hermosillo Bust of Luis Donaldo Colosio, Hermosillo Equestrian statue of Juan Bautista de Anza, Hermosillo Presidents of the Republic, Boulevard Rodríguez, Hermosillo (including Álvaro Obregón, Adolfo de la Huerta, Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Plutarco Elías Calles) Plaza of the Three Presidents, Guaymas (including Adolfo de la Huerta, Plutarco Elías Calles, Abelardo L. Rodríguez) The Fisherman, Guaymas Father Eusebio Franciasco Kino (1988), Kino Parkway, Tucson Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (1981), 11 ft tall, San Bernardino City Hall, San Bernardino Equestrian statue of José María Morelos (1981), El Parque de México in Lincoln Park, Los Angeles Bust of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, University of California

Spain

Bust of Lázaro Cárdenas, Córdoba Statue of Lázaro Cárdenas, , Madrid

Italy Statue of Father Eusebio Francisco Kino (1990), Segno, Liguria