Biografie von Jean CHARLOT (1898-1979)

Birth place: Paris, France

Death place: Honolulu, HI

Addresses: NYC, 1947; Honolulu, HI (c.1949-on)

Profession: Painter, illustrator, art historian

Exhibited: PAFA, 1939-53; Corcoran Gal, 1941; AIC; Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Calif, 1942 (solo); Smith Col Mus, 1948; Fifty Years Retrospective, 1916-1966," Honolulu Acad Arts, 1966; US Cultural Cntr, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1967 (solo); retrospective at Mus Arte Mod, Mexico City (for Olympics), 1968. Awards: Guggenheim fel, 1945-47; fel in perpetuity, MMA, 1960; specialist, East-West Ctr, US Govt, 1967; Nat Council Arts grant, 1968."

Member: Benjamin Franklin fel Royal Soc Arts; Col Art Asn Am; Hawaiian Hist Soc; Hawaiian Painters & Sculptors; ASL

Work: MMA; MoMA; PMA; PMG; MoMA Mexico City; Acad Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii; Uffizi Gal, Florence, Italy; FA Bldg, Iowa City; Parish Church, Peepack, NJ. Commissions: fresco, Escuela Preparatoria, Mexico City, 1922; fresco, Univ Ga, Athens, 1944; fresco, Tempe, Ariz, 1951; fresco, First Nat Bank, Hawaii, 1966; ceramic sculpture, Ala Moana Hotel, Honolulu, 1971.

Comments: Teaching: ASL, NYC 1933-42; Univ Ga, 1942-44; Smith Col, 1944-45; Ryerson lectr, Yale Univ, 1947; dir art sch, Colo Springs Fine Arts Ctr, 1947-49; Univ Hawaii, 1949-67. Illustrator: Book of Christophor Columbus," by Paul Claudel, "Temple of the Warriors," pub. Carneige Inst., "Portraits of the Reformation," by Belloc, "The Sun the Moon and a Rabbit." by Del Rio, "Art from the Mayans to Disney," pub. Sheed and Ward. Work included in: Fifty Prints of the Year (1929-30, and 1935.) Art historical research: Hawaiian history; archaeology of Yucatan; Mexican art both colonial and modern. Collection: Mexican pre-Hispanic; Pacific Island artifacts; modern art. Author: The Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itza (Carnegie Inst of Washington, 1929); Mexican Art and the Academy of San Carlos (Univ Tex Press, 1962); Mexican Mural Renaissance: 1920-1925 (Yale Univ Press, 1963); Three plays of Ancient Hawaii (Univ Hawaii Press, 1963); An Artist on Art (Univ Hawaii Press, 1972).

Sources: WW73; WW40; "Charlot Murals in Georgia" (Univ Ga Press, 1945); George Tahara (producer), three films, for: Cine-Pic & Syracuse Univ, 1955,1960 & 1972."

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