Amanda Rae Busch reports on painter, printmaker and general arts community cornerstone Julio Granda:
“Julio is that bridge between the abstract world of artists and the reality of the working general public,” explains artist and longtime friend Tom Patti, who first met Granda through writer (and great-grandson of Herman Melville) Paul Metcalf, then a realtor-by-day who sold Granda his home in Washington. “The enthusiasm and the vigor, the way he went about things, he was sort of the spiritual leader of the band of artists that were around at that time,” Patti says. “I lived outside of the community—but he was always drawing me back into it—who could say no to Julio? He had a big influence on a generation.”
