Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Related Materials
Biographical / Historical Note
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Julio Payró letters
received
Dates: 1937-1971
Dates: 1940-1955
Collection number: 990020
Collector:
Payró, Julio E., 1899-1971
Extent:
354 items
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Libary
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: The collection comprises 354 letters from 116
correspondents sent to the Argentine art critic Julio Payró between 1937
and 1971.
Language: Collection material is in
Spanish.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Julio Payró letters received, 1937-1971, bulk 1940-1955,
Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 990020
Acquisition Information
Received 1999
Processing History
Processed by Onica Busuioceanu
Related Materials
Pettoruti, Emilio, Letters to Julio Payró, 1924-1957, bulk
1952-1957, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no.
2001.M.18
Biographical / Historical Note
Julio Payró began his career as a painter, studying with the
Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García in Paris and Barcelona
(1907), then with William de Gouve in Brussels from 1912 to 1918, after which
he returned to Buenos Aires. In 1928 he decided to work solely as an art
critic, building a reputation as a major analyst of 20th century art movements
in Argentina and Latin America.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection comprises 354 letters from 116 correspondents sent to
the Argentine art critic Julio Payró between 1937 and 1971. There are 7
letters by Payró: one is a carbon copy, the others are written as
answers on the backs of letters received. Two thirds of the correspondents are
artists, mostly from Argentina and a few other Southern American countries;
some are European-born émigrés to South America. The other third
are intellectuals, including art critics and historians, writers, editors,
publishers, anthropologists, poets, scholars, journalists, professors, art
collectors, sociologists, and the Chilean dancer Ana Itelman.
With rare exceptions, the correspondents are thanking Payró for
helping them to get grants for studies in Europe, or financial help to publish
their works. Most of them are grateful for Payró's reviews of
their works. The artists write to Payró about their struggles in Paris,
their work, their hopes, their exhibitions. The group of 40 letters in this
collection related to Payro's book
Veintidos Pintores, published in 1944, documents his
dedication to promoting modern art in Argentina.
Among the most significant letters are those from the painter and poet
Eduardo Jonquieres (19), the writer Eduardo Mallea (7), Victoria Ocampo, the
founder of the
Sur review (9), the Uruguyan writer Juan Carlos Onetti
(48), the Argentine artist Luís Seoane (3), the Uruguyan painter
Joaquín Torres-García (9), and 23 from the Argentine painter
Emilio Pettoruti, whose correspondence of earlier years is also in the Getty
Research Library (Special collections accession number 2001.M.18.)
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Castro, Sergio de, 1922-
--Correspondence
Jonquieres,
Eduardo--Correspondence
Mallea, Eduardo,
1903-1982--Correspondence
Ocampo, Victoria,
1890-1979--Correspondence
Onetti, Juan Carlos,
1909-1994--Correspondence
Pettoruti, Emilio,
1892-1971--Correspondence
Seoane,
Luis--Correspondence
Torres-García,
Joaquín, - 1874-1949 --Correspondence
Subjects - Topics
Authors ‡z Argentina
‡v Correspondence
Artists ‡z Argentina
‡v Correspondence
Artists ‡z Uruguay
‡v Correspondence
Authors ‡z Uruguay
‡v Correspondence
Art critics ‡z
Argentina ‡v Correspondence
Painters ‡z
Argentina ‡v Correspondence
Painters ‡z Uruguay
‡v Correspondence
Sculptors ‡z
Argentina ‡v Correspondence
Contributors
De Castro, Sergio,
1922
Jonquieres, Eduardo,
1918-2000
Mallea, Eduardo,
1903-1982
Ocampo, Victoria,
1890-1979
Onetti, Juan Carlos,
1909-1994
Pettoruti, Emilio,
1892-1971
Seoane, Luis
Torres-García,
Joaquín, - 1874-1949
Titles
Sur
Veintidos Pintores
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