Mother with Child in Front
Artist
Jean Charlot
(American, born France, 1898 - 1979)
Date1934
MediumColor lithograph on paper
DimensionsPlate: 26 1/2 × 17 1/2 inches (67.31 × 44.45 cm)
Sheet: 33 7/8 × 22 inches (86.03 × 55.88 cm)
Sheet: 33 7/8 × 22 inches (86.03 × 55.88 cm)
Credit LineGift of Richard S. Davis
Object number53-34
On View
Not on viewCollections
Gallery LabelParisian-born Jean Charlot accompanied his Mexican mother on her travels to Mexico City in 1921. Between 1926 and 1929, he served as the staff artist for an archaeological expedition at the pre-Columbian Mayan site Chichén Itzá on the Yucatán Peninsula. He was inspired by Mayan art and its geometric abstraction of the human figure. Mother with Child in Front reveals the impact that Mayan art had on Charlot and also expresses his connection to his own mother, with whom he made his first trip to Mexico.
Richard S. Davis (1917–1985), Wayzata, MN, by December 26, 1952 [1];
Given by Davis to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.
NOTES:
[1] Lt. Richard Siebe Davis, USNR, was a curator (1948–56) and then director (1956–59) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. From January–May 1946 while assigned to Tokyo, Davis served as a “Monuments Man” in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Section during World War II.
Copyright© The Jean Charlot Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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