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Michele Greet

Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars

~Researching and writing Transatlantic Encounters would not have been possible without the assistance and generous support of numerous individuals and institutions. A Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Modern Art, the Phillips Collection, funded the initial research for this book from 2008 to 2009. In addition to giving me access...

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Michele Greet

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00171.002

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Acknowledgments

Researching and writing Transatlantic Encounters would not have been possible without the assistance and generous support of numerous individuals and institutions. A Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Modern Art, the Phillips Collection, funded the initial research for this book from 2008 to 2009. In addition to giving me access to the Phillips Collection Library, the fellowship allowed me to take advantage of many resources in the Washington, D.C., area, including the Library of Congress, the Art Research Library at the National Gallery of Art, and the Art Museum of the Americas archives; to take several research trips to New York to visit the Frick Collection Library, which has a wonderful collection of catalogues of Latin American artists in Paris, and the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and to take trips to Los Angeles, where I consulted the César Moro Archives at the Getty Research Library. While at the Phillips Collection, I taught a seminar on the topic of my research to a wonderful group of students from the University of Illinois. Our discussions in that class helped direct my investigation.

In the summer of 2011 I was awarded a Creative Award Grant by George Mason University for a research trip to Paris, where I consulted archives at the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Palais Galliera, the Bibliothèque Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou, and the Archives Nationales. I would especially like to thank Dominique Bermann Martin for inviting me into her home and sharing André Lhote’s archives with me. From 2012 to 2013 a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship supported my writing of the book manuscript, and a 2016 Millard Meiss Publication Grant funded, in part, book production costs. I am extremely grateful for the support these grants provided.

Additionally, I would like to thank the institutions where I presented iterations of this research: American University; the Art Museum of the Americas; George Washington University; the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris; the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; the Phillips Collection; Purdue University; Rice University; the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá; the University of Essex (UK); as well as College Art Association and Latin American Studies Association conferences.

I would also like to thank the following individuals for their assistance: the interlibrary loan staff at GMU, who went out of their way to assist me with my many obscure requests; GMU’s visual resources curator, Sherrie Rook, who meticulously processed many of my images; my colleague Ben Cowen for assisting me with Portuguese translations; and Leonard Folgarait, Anna Indych-López, and Robert DeCaroli for writing letters of recommendation for my various grant applications. For sharing their knowledge and scholarship I’d like to thank Michel Bastarache, Lori Cole, Dafne Cruz Porcini, Ingrid Elliott, Tatiana Flores, Claudia Garay, Georgina Gluzman, Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Rachel Kaplan, Lynda Klich, Jay Oles, Fernando Saavedra, Gloria Santos, Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simoni, Edward Sullivan, Susana Temkin, Gerardo Traeger, Edgard Vidal, Fernando Villegas, and Adriana Zavala.

I would especially like to thank the American Federation of Arts, specifically Margery King, Pauline Willis, Katrina London, and Abigail Lapin Dardashti, for recognizing the potential of this project and inviting me to guest-curate an exhibition based on my research. The AFA facilitated research trips to Brazil, Argentina, and Cuba, where I visited museums and private collections. I would like to thank the following individuals who welcomed Margery and me during our travels: Fernanda Pitta, Ivo Mesquita, and Teodora Carneiro at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Katia Canton at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo; Jorge Schwartz at the Museu Lasar Segall, São Paulo; Ana Cristina Carvalho at the Governmental Palaces, São Paulo; Carlos Alberto Gouvêa Chateaubriand, Luiz Camillo Osorio, and Claudia Calaça at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM); Paulo Herkenhoff and Tiago Cacique at the Museu de Arte do Rio; Victoria Giraudo at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Sonia Ubeira at the Fundación Pettoruti, Buenos Aires; Patricia Artundo and Elena Montero Lacasa de Povarché at the Museo Xul Solar, Buenos Aires; and Ana Cristina Perera Escalona and Roberto Cobas at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana. Additional thanks go to the collectors who allowed me to visit their homes and galleries: José Darío Gutiérrez (Bogotá), Ignacio Gutiérrez Zaldívar (Buenos Aires), Norma Beatriz Quarrato (Buenos Aires), Gustavo Tuffano (Buenos Aires), Pierre Moos (Paris), Marta Fadel Lobão (Rio de Janeiro), Cidô Brecheret (São Paulo), Sandra Brecheret Pellegrini (São Paulo), Isabella Hutchinson (New York), Mary-Anne Martin (New York), Alberto Minujin (New York), and Cecilia de Torres (New York).

Finally, thank you to my fantastic graduate students—Adriana Ospina, Beth Shook, Melissa Derecola, and Suzanne Gilbert—for their help with the website that accompanies this project, and to all the GMU students who have taken the various iterations of my “Transatlantic Encounters” class. Last but not least I’d like to thank my mother, Dorothy Greet, for reading the entire manuscript and providing feedback, and my wonderful husband and partner, Robb Williams, and our two daughters, Sienna and Kaylee, for their love and support. In addition to being wonderful travel partners, you have been so understanding and tolerant of the enormous amount of time that goes into a project such as this. Thank you for being there for me from beginning to end!

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