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Jean Charlot, 1898-1979
Zohmah Day, 1909-2000
Jean Charlot's career as an artist, writer, and professor spanned several decades and multiple countries. He studied art in Paris before the outbreak of World War I, and in 1921, after the war had ended, he moved to Mexico, the birthplace of his maternal grandfather. While there, he absorbed local art traditions and worked alongside Diego Rivera and other members of the Mexican avant-garde. Charlot moved in circles with other visiting artists, too, including the American photographer Edward Weston who lived in Mexico between 1923 and 1926.
Weston took this photograph of Charlot and Zohmah Day, in 1933, when the couple was visiting him in Carmel, California. By then, Charlot had settled in New York City, where he helped foster the burgeoning American muralist tradition, through his art and through his research and criticism. Charlot taught at a number of American institutions before becoming a professor of art at the University of Hawaii in 1949.
Edward Weston, 1933 |