Oral history interview with Jean Charlot

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Oral history interview with Jean Charlot

1961 August 18

An interview of Jean Charlot conducted by Miriam L. Lesley and Alice Hollis on 1961 August 18 for the Archives of American Art.

Sound recording: 1 sound tape reel ; 7 in.Transcript: 21 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8315129

Archives of American Art

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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...

Lesley, Miriam L.

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Archivist; Detroit, Michigan. Worked for the Archives of American Art in Detroit. From the description of Miriam L. Lesley interview, 1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82781188 ...

Hollis, Alice,

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Hendrickson, Paul

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Roberts, James, Brother.

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