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Title: Julio Payró letters received
Date (inclusive): 1937-1971 (bulk 1940-1955)
Number: 990020
Creator/Collector:
Payró, Julio E., 1899-1971
Physical Description:
354.0 items
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The collection comprises 354 letters from 116 correspondents sent to the Argentine art critic Julio Payró between 1937 and
1971.
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Language: Collection material is in
Spanish; Castilian
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.
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Julio Payró letters received, 1937-1971, bulk 1940-1955, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 990020
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa990020
Received 1999
Processed by Onica Busuioceanu
Pettoruti, Emilio, Letters to Julio Payró, 1924-1957, bulk 1952-1957, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute,
Accession no. 2001.M.18
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.)
Arranged alphabetically.
Castro, Sergio de, 1922-
Jonquières, Eduardo
Mallea, Eduardo, 1903-1982
Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979
Onetti, Juan Carlos, 1909-1994
Pettoruti, Emilio, 1892-1971
Seoane, Luis
Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949
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
Sur Veintidos Pintores
Castro, Sergio de, 1922-
Jonquières, Eduardo
Mallea, Eduardo, 1903-1982
Ocampo, Victoria, 1890-1979
Onetti, Juan Carlos, 1909-1994
Payró, Julio E., 1899-1971
Pettoruti, Emilio, 1892-1971
Seoane, Luis
Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949