Descriptive Summary
Biographical/Historical Note
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Joaquín Torres-García papers
Date (inclusive): circa 1904-1994
Number: 960087
Creator/Collector:
Torres-García, Joaquín,
1874-1949
Physical Description:
5 Linear Feet
(9 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
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Abstract: Uruguayan constructivist painter.
Papers comprise published and unpublished manuscripts (including those by and about
Torres-Garcia), sketches, charts, pamphlets, reviews of exhibitions, gallery notices, and
art journals and catalogs. The collection also includes photocopies of Torres-Garcia's
letters, manuscripts, and reviews. The development and impact of Torres-Garcia's art and
ideas is traced through publications by groups affiliated with Torres-Garcia, including the
Asociacíon de Arte Constructivo and El Taller Torres-García.
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Language: Collection material is in
Spanish; Castilian
Biographical/Historical Note
Joaquín Torres-García was a Uruguayan constructivist painter influenced by Surrealism,
abstract geometry, and Pre-Columbian art. He lived and worked in Catalonia, New York City,
Paris, and Montevideo.
Administrative Information
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Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Joaquin Torres-Garcia papers, ca. 1904-1994, Research Library, The Getty Research
Insititute, Accession no. 960087.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa960087
Scope and Content of Collection
The papers document Torres-García's artistic development and career through unpublished
manuscripts and sketches, publications by Torres-García and the groups Asociacíon de Arte
Constructivo and El Taller Torres-García, and ephemera. Included are manifestoes and
pamphlets, invitations and announcements for exhibitions, clippings of exhibition reviews,
books by and about Torres-García, art periodicals and catalogs, as well as photocopies of
letters, manuscripts and reviews.
Arrangement note
The papers are organized in 5 series, each arranged chronologically.
Series I. Manuscripts, c.
1911-1943;
Series
II. Correspondence and writing (photocopies), ca. 1912-1943;
Series III. Publications,
ca. 1914-1959;
Series IV. Ephemera, ca. 1904-1991;
Series V. Clippings, ca. 1942-1994
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949
Subjects - Topics
Constructivism (Art)
Mural painting and decoration
Art -- Spain
Art -- France
Art -- Uruguay
Art, American
Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century
Subjects - Titles
Mi opinion sobre la exposition de artistas Norteamericanos: [contibution
al problema del arte Norteamericanos]
Metafisica de la prehistorica indoamericana
Historia de mi vida
Genres and Forms of Material
Clippings (information artifacts)
Manifestoes
Sketches
Contributors
Taller
Torres-García
Salvat-Papasseit,
Joan, 1894-1924
Ozenfant, Amédée,
1886-1966
Mondrian, Piet,
1872-1944
Torres-García, Joaquín,
1874-1949
Duchamp, Marcel,
1887-1968
Amigos del Arte
(Association : Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Arzadun, Carmelo
de, 1888-1968
Asociación de Arte
Constructivo
Cine Club del
Uruguay
Doesburg, Theo van,
1883-1931
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation
Miró, Joan,
1893-1983