and was wanted by the German secret police. While separated from his daughter and son-in-law, Julio González drew figurative drawings and worked on plaster casts. The drawings and castings produced during the last two years of his life are testimonies to the suffering and despair González felt towards tyranny and war. Julio González died in Arcueil on March 27, 1942. Public collections The Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C.), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, Netherlands), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Luís Ángel Arango Library (Bogotá, Colombia), the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (France), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Museo Patio Herreriano de Valladolid (Spain), Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas, Texas), the National Gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh), the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pompidou Center (Paris), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City), and the Tate Gallery (London) are among the public collections holding work by Julio González. The biggest collection of this artist's work is held by the IVAM (Valencia's Institute of Modern Art), in the city of Valencia, Spain, with close to 400 pieces. Artworks Still life II, c. 1929, conserved at MNAC Raised Left Hand, conserved at MNAC References Further reading Nancy Marmer, "Julio Gonzalez: Sculpture in Iron," Art in America, November/December 1978, pp. 23–24. External links Guggenheim Museum biography The Legacy Project, Visual Arts Library Spanish Painters, biographies IVAM (Valencia’s Institute of Modern Art) 1876 births 1942 deaths Sculptors from Catalonia Painters from Catalonia Modern sculptors Modern painters Cubist artists 20th-century Spanish sculptors 20th-century Spanish male artists Spanish male sculptors Spanish expatriates in France