Description: Jean Charlot (American, 1898-1979)Mother and Child lithograph, pencil signed l.r. sheet measures approximately: 7 3/4" W x 10 1/8" H mat measures approximately: 17" W x 20" H About Jean Charlot Jean Charlot was born on October 29, 1868 in Paris, France. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris before serving in the French Army during World War I. His mother, with her French, Mexican and Jewish lineage, introduced him to Mexico in 1920, where he sketched for archeologists excavating Mayan ruins. He became fascinated with his Mexican heritage, as evident in a series of mural paintings in Mexico City assisting Diego Rivera and other members of the Syndicate of Painters and Sculptors. Charlot is credited by Rivera as reviving and refining the fresco technique that he used. Charlot moved to the U.S. and worked for the WPA as a muralist. After working in 1929 with lithography printer George Miller in New York, Charlot began a lifetime collaboration in 1933 with Lynton R. Kistler, master lithography printer in Los Angeles, reputedly making the first stone-drawn color lithographs in the United States. Charlot devoted himself to themes of family and the working class, revealing the universality of human nature. In 1947, he headed the art school at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, working with Lawrence Barrett on lithographs. In 1949, he moved to Hawaii where he taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Charlot died in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 20, 1979.
Price: 500 USD
Location: Chicago, Illinois
End Time: 2024-09-26T01:32:30.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Size: Small (up to 12in.)
Artist: Jean Charlot
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Medium: Lithograph
Date of Creation: 1900-1949
Features: Matted, Signed
Originality: Limited Edition Print
Print Surface: Paper
