Payro (Julio) Letters received, 1937-1971 (bulk 1940-1955)

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Summary

Title:

Julio Payró letters received

Dates:

1937-1971 (bulk 1940-1955)

Creators:

Payró, Julio E., 1899-1971

Abstract:

The collection comprises 354 letters from 116 correspondents sent to the Argentine art critic Julio Payró between 1937 and 1971.

Extent:

354.0 items

Language:

Collection material is in Spanish; Castilian

Preferred citation:

Julio Payró letters received, 1937-1971, bulk 1940-1955, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 990020

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa990020

Background

Scope and content:

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 note

Arranged alphabetically.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:

Received 1999

Processing information:

Processed by Onica Busuioceanu

Physical location:

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Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Art critics--Argentina--Correspondence
Artists--Argentina--Correspondence
Artists--Uruguay--Correspondence
Authors--Argentina--Correspondence
Authors--Uruguay--Correspondence
Painters--Argentina--Correspondence
Painters--Uruguay--Correspondence
Sculptors--Argentina--Correspondence

About this collection guide

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Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2016-02-11T08:57-0800

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