Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Payr贸, Julio E., 1899-1971
- Abstract:
- The collection comprises 354 letters from 116 correspondents sent to the Argentine art critic Julio Payr贸 between 1937 and 1971.
- Extent:
- 354.0 items
- Language:
- Collection material is in Spanish; Castilian
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection comprises 354 letters from 116 correspondents sent to the Argentine art critic Julio Payr贸 between 1937 and 1971. There are 7 letters by Payr贸: 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 茅migr茅s 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 Payr贸 for helping them to get grants for studies in Europe, or financial help to publish their works. Most of them are grateful for Payr贸's reviews of their works. The artists write to Payr贸 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 Lu铆s Seoane (3), the Uruguyan painter Joaqu铆n Torres-Garc铆a (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 noteArranged alphabetically.
- Biographical / historical:
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Julio Payr贸 began his career as a painter, studying with the Uruguayan artist Joaqu铆n Torres-Garc铆a 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.
- Acquisition information:
- Received 1999
- Physical location:
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- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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