Letters to Jean Charlot, 1925-1943.

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Letters to Jean Charlot, 1925-1943.

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A series of letters to Jean Charlot with a full account of Orozco's life in New York during 1927-1929. Orozco discusses his work in Mexico, such as the murals for the New Preparatory School, and commissions in New York (the New School). Frequently mentioned in the letters are Diego Rivera, Tina Modotti, Walter Pach, Anita Brenner and Frances Flynn Paine. All but one of the letters were published in English translation as The Artist in New York (Austin, 1974).

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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...

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Paine, Frances Flynn

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David Alfaro Siqueiros was a leading member of the Mexican muralist movement and a technical innovator of fresco and wall painting. His ideological differences with Diego Rivera attracted much attention in the 1930s. From the description of David Alfaro Siqueiros papers, 1920-1991, bulk 1930-1936. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80149112 ...

Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949

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Mexican painter. From the description of Letters to Jean Charlot, 1925-1943. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78326558 ...

Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942

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Brenner, Anita, 1905-1974

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Lozano, Rodrigo.

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Pach, Walter, 1883-1958

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Pach: Artist, critic, historian, writer, art consultant, curator; New York, N.Y. Instrumental in organizing the Armory Show, 1913. Winthrop: patron; New York, N.Y. His collection, left to Harvard University, included early American portraits, drawings by English and French artists, and Chinese sculpture. From the description of Walter Pach letter to Grenville Winthrop, 1933 Apr. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84852249 American artist and author. From the desc...

Zárraga, Angel 1886-1946

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O'Higgins, Pablo, 1904-1983

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These lithographs were originally cut and printed in 1970. In 1999 a new series was printed by Mark Silverberg; these two sets are numbers 104 of 190 for series I, and 7 of 100 for series II. From the description of Imágenes de Mexico, I & II : lithographs, 1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384067 ...