Jean Charlot

Spear Thrower

Jean Charlot's original work of art entitled,Spear Thrower dates from the final decade of his life. At this time the artist experimented with the silk-screen medium and its bold colour properties. This original silkscreen is printed upon thick, laid paper with the 'Rives' watermark and with full, deckled margins as published in an edition of two hundred impressions in 1974. It is signed and numbered by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. Spear Thrower is a prime, original example of the famous art of Jean Charlot.

Spear Thrower

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Title:	Spear Thrower
Artist:	Charlot, Jean (Paris, France, 1898 - Hawaii, 1979)
Date:	1974
Medium:	Original Silkscreen
Note:	Jean Charlot: Although he was born and raised in France and spent the final decades of his life in Hawaii, Jean Charlot's art is most often linked with that of Mexico. But as an important printmaker, muralist and scholar his influence spread over all of Latin America and the United States. By the end of his life, Charlot had created over 700 original lithographs, woodcuts, drypoints and silkscreens, had painted major public murals in Mexico, the United States and Hawaii and had authored many books upon both the ancient art of the Americas and upon contemporary artists.
	Born in Paris, Jean Charlot studied there at the Ecole des Beaux-Artes in 1914 and 1915. In the final year of the First World War he served as an artillery officer and then as a member of the French military police during the Rhineland occupation (1917-1920). Jean Charlot moved to Mexico in 1920 and received his first mural commission for a large fresco ("Massacre in the Main Temple") in Mexico City two years later. During the remainder of the decade he painted further murals, a number of easel paintings and worked as an archeological artist for the Carnegie Institution in the Yucatan (1926-1928). The ancient Mayan art he encountered there would have a profound effect upon his own creations.
	In 1930, Jean Charlot settled in New York City and taught at both the Art Students' League and at Columbia University. At this time he began to dedicate himself to the graphic arts, in particular colour lithography. His collection of thirty-two colour lithographs, Picture Book, was published in 1933. During the following years Charlot taught at the University of Georgia (1941), the Colorado Springs Fine Arts School (Director, 1947) and at the University of Hawaii (Professor of Painting and Art History, 1949). He retired from the University of Hawaii in 1966.
	During his career Jean Charlot received major awards from the Guggenheim Fellowship and Yale University. In 1966 a retrospective exhibition of his art was held at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and in 1968 a similar exhibition took place at the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City. Today, major collections of Charlot's prints are found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Smithsonian Institution, the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts and at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Edition:	Spear Thrower dates from the final decade of Jean Charlot's life. At this time the artist experimented with the silk-screen medium and its bold colour properties. This large and beautiful work of art was published in 1974 in a sole, limited edition of 200 signed impressions, numbered 26/200.
Raisonne:	Peter Morse, Jean Charlot's Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1976.
	Catalogue # 704. First and only state as published in the limited edition of 200 impressions.
Size:	15 X 20 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon thick, laid paper with the 'Rives' watermark and with full, deckled margins as published in 1974. Signed by the artist in pencil and numbered '26/200' along the lower margin. A fine full colour impression and in excellent condition throughout. Spear Thrower represents a prime, original example of the famous art of Jean Charlot.
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