Jean Charlot Collection

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Jean Charlot Collection

1900-1979

https://archivesspace.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/repositories/4/resources/335

The Jean Charlot Collection is a major archive of documents and art works relating to the artist and writer Jean Charlot (1898 Paris-1979 Honolulu) and to those whom he came in contact over his long career in France, Mexico, the United States and the Pacific. Since the founding donation in 1981, the Collection has been considerably expanded by further gifts from his wife Zohmah Charlot, other family members, and from Charlot's collaborators, such as the important fine art printer Lynton Kistler and print scholar Peter Morse. It includes art works, correspondence, and photographs of Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, and others. Charlot collected many broadsides of Mexican life printed by José Guadalupe Posada, as well as classical European printmakers such as Honoré Daumier. Photographers he worked with and whose work he collected include Edward Weston and Tina Modotti. Charlot’s published and unpublished writings, correspondence, diaries, sketch books, photographs, guest books, and more make this a collection of great depth.

1319 square feet

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University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamilton Library

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University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamilton Library

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Charlot, Jean, 1898-1979

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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 J...

Charlot, John, 1941-2022

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First son to Jean and Zohmah Charlot, John was raised in a world of art, culture, and religion, from Mexico to Hawai'i. After time at Harvard, U. of Louvain (Belgium), and U. of Munich (Germany), John eventually returned home, fashioned a career in teaching and research, most notably with the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and authored a wide range of scholarly articles and books, including "Chanting the Universe: Hawaiian Religious Culture", "Classical Hawaiian Education: Generations of Hawaii...

Jiménez, Doña Luz, 1897-1965

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Jean Charlot (1898–1979) and Luz Jiménez (1897–1965) each had an independent career: he as an artist and writer, and she as a model, informant, and author. They also had a long relationship that was important for the history of art and culture. They first met in late 1921 or early 1922, when Charlot was either twenty-three or twenty-four years old and Luz was a year older.[1] Luz became his model and visual inspiration. She also became his teacher of Náhuatl and Aztec culture, bringing him into ...

University of Hawaii at Manoa. Library. Jean Charlot Collection

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The Jean Charlot Collection is a major archive of art works and documents relating to the artist and writer Jean Charlot [1898-1979] and to other artists, intellectuals, and friends he worked with or knew in his long career in France, Mexico, New York City, Georgia, Colorado, and Hawaiʻi. The includes art works, correspondence, and photographs of Mexican mural luminaries such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco. Charlot amassed important photograph and print study colle...