Lynton Kistler and Jean Charlot papers

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Lynton Kistler and Jean Charlot papers

1933-1982

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Correspondence between printmaker Lynton Kistler and artist Jean Charlot, 1933-1979, and letters between Kistler and Charlot's family after his death in 1979. Also included is a file on the Kistler and Charlot collaborative project for a series of color lithographs entitled PICTURE BOOK, printed in 1933 and 1973, and correspondence, 1953-1982, between Kistler and clients for his and Charlots' work.

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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...

Kistler, Lynton R., 1897-1993

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Lynton Kistler did lithographic print in Los Angeles for artists, including KJean Charlot. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1939-1967. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155901801 Lithographic printer. Kistler began working in the plant of his father, Will A. Kistler, and developed many advances in the use of the offset press. The Kistler Studio of Lithography, Los Angeles, was established to help art...