Charlot, Jean, 1898-1979 - Social Networks and Archival Context (original ) (raw ) Jean Charlot was an artist, teacher, scholar, critic, poet, and playwright. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and served in the French Army from 1918 to 1920. After the war he moved to Mexico, where he had relatives, and joined a group of other young artists in the Mexican Mural Renaissance of the 1920s. Charlot's fresco mural in the Preparatoria Nacional was the first of many he completed. While in Mexico, he wrote numerous articles on art, among them the first on the Mexican printmaker Jose Guadalupe Posada, and worked as an archeologist and illustrator with the Carnegie expedition to Chichen Itza. In the 1930s, Charlot lived and worked in New York, also spending time in California and Iowa. During the 1940s, he worked in Georgia, Mexico and Colorado. In 1949, he was invited by the University of Hawaii to paint a mural. He remained there as Professor of art, traveling extensively in the United States, the Pacific, and Asia. He died in Honolulu in 1979, at the age of 81.
As an artist, Charlot's international reputation rests on his more than sixty murals in the United States and Mexico and on his more than 700 prints. His paintings, drawings and numerous illustrated books are also widely known and admired. His high standing as a scholar and historian of art is largely independent of his own painting. He is the author of some twenty five books on art, including the definitive studies of the Mexican Mural Renaissance, the Academy of San Carlos, and, as co-author, the Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itza. He also authored a large number of scholarly and popular articles on numerous aspects of the arts.
His output of drawings, paintings, murals, prints, cartoons, books, articles, and other writings was prodigious. His life was full of significant connections within the intellectual and political milieu of the diverse communities where he lived — with artists and writers, with art and educational institutions, with the Roman Catholic Church, with indigenous and working people. With his wife, Zohmah Day Charlot (1909-2000), he nurtured students and friendships, maintained links lasting many years, and with his fine sense of history preserved many tangible records of his experience. He observed events and people precisely and wrote succinctly.
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Charlot, Jean, 1898- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material].
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
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Bethers, Ray, 1902-. Ray Bethers papers, 1949-1950.
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Kistler, Lynton R. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1939-1967.
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Ohio State University. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Jean Charlot 1898-1979 biographical file.
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Charlot, Jean : Biographical file.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
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Jean Charlot papers
Archives of American Art
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Charlot, Jean, 1898-1979. Publications, catalogs, clipping and notes, 1973-1989.
Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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Max Weber papers
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Charlot, Jean, 1898-1979. Charlot, Jean letters, 1944.
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Jean Charlot Papers, 1960-1962
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Charlot, Jean. [Jean Charlot] : artist file
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Theatre Arts Monthly, collection of photographs of set designs, ca. 1924-1949.
Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
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Jean Charlot Papers, 1931-1980
University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections
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Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949. Letters to Jean Charlot, 1925-1943.
Getty Research Institute
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Frankforter, Katherine. Class notes from Black Mountain College, 1942-1945.
Getty Research Institute
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Charlot, Henri, 1898-. Henri Charlot letter to unidentified recipient [manuscript] 1917 February 24.
University of Virginia. Library
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Binsfeld, Edmund L. (Edmund Louis), 1905-1985. Papers, [ca. 1920-1950s].
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Charlot, Jean, 1898-. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
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Charlot, Jean. [Jean Charlot] : artist file
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library, Ringling Museum Library
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Charlot, Jean. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1938-1956.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
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Charlot, Jean, 1898-. Jean Charlot : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York].
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Claudel, Paul, 1868-1955. ALS, 1930 April 27 : Washington, D.C., to S.J. Woolf.
Copley Press, J S Copley Library
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Jean Charlot Collection
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamilton Library
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Charlot, Jean, 1898-. Papers, 1952-1977.
University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library
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Lynton Kistler and Jean Charlot papers
Archives of American Art
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Howard Norton Cook Papers, 1866-1979
Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center
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Morse, John D., 1906-. Ben Shahn / by John D. Morse and Jean Charlot.
Rutgers University
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Luce, Maximilien, 1858-1941. Letters, sketches and exhibition catalogues, 1899-1930.
Getty Research Institute
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Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
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Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
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Carnegie Institution of Washington.
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Charlot, Jean
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Charlot, John, 1941-2022
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Charlot, Martin
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Charlot, Zohmah.
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Claudel, Paul, 1868-1955.
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Cook, Howard Norton, 1901-1980
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Cueto, Lola, 1897-1978
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Duveen, Albert.
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Frankforter, Katherine.
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Houghton Library.
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Jiménez, Doña Luz, 1897-1965
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Keener, Joseph A.
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Kistler, Lynton R., 1897-1993.
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Krumgold, Joseph, 1908-1980.
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Lesley, Miriam L.
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Luce, Maximilien, 1858-1941.
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Martinez del Rio, Amelia
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Mérida, Carlos, 1891-
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942
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Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
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Morse, Peter.
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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949.
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Parish, Helen Rand.
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Posada, José Guadalupe, 1852-1913.
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Rhoads, Dorothy
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Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
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Roberts, James, Brother.
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Schlein, Miriam.
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Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
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Shannon, Monica
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Siqueiros, David Alfaro
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Stendahl Art Galleries.
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Syracuse University.
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Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico City, Mexico)
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Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico City, Mexico)
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The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library.
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University of Georgia.
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Walt Disney Productions (active 1923)
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