Jean Charlot Papers 1931-1980

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Jean Charlot Papers 1931-1980

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Jean Charlot's papers focus on his work as an illustrator of children's picture books. The collection contains production materials for twenty-one titles published between 1931 and 1980, and includes ink illustrations, ink and pencil sketches, pencil sketches, watercolor studies, lithographs for an art catalog, dummies, and some notes and photocopies for one title, A First Book, written by Mr. Charlot's wife, Zohmah Charlot. There are also two lithographs for a catalog printed in 1948.

4 boxes (5 cu. ft.)

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections

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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...