JEAN CHARLOT
1897 - 1979
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Jean Charlot 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 enthused 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 for reviving and refining the fresco technique that he used.
After working from 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.
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Exhibitions at Tobey C. Moss Gallery:
| 2001 | Latin Flavors |
| 1994 | Jean Charlot: 1930s to 1970s, Drawings and Lithographs |
| 1988 | Jean Charlot: Paintings, Prints, Drawings |
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