V ALLE 



JAIME VALLE Y DIAZ 



Artist; draughtsnuui. 



Jaime Valle y Diaz was born in Bar- 

 celona in the year 1885 and was educated 

 at the church schools where he obtained 

 the Bachelor's degree. In Havana he has 

 acted as supervisor of Modeling and Draw- 

 ing in the public schools of the city and as 

 Artistic Director of the Bureau of Publicity 

 and Graphic Arts. He has served also as 

 art editor of the Cuban paper, La Discus- 

 ion. He is the author of the artistic post- 

 ers which obtained the first prize in all 

 competitions held in Cuba up to the present 

 year (19 19). These competitions, it may 

 be mentioned, were nine in number. He is 

 responsible for almost all the drawings and 

 posters published by the Bureau of Pub- 

 licity and Graphic Arts in Havana, and of 

 a great number of title-pages, illustrations 



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