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The Jean Charlot Foundation

BOOKS AND BOOKLETS BY JEAN CHARLOT

Earl H. Morris, Jean Charlot, and Ann Axtell Morris: The Temple of the Warriors at Chichén Itzá, Yucatan, 2 volumes, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication Number 406.  Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1931.  “Bas-Reliefs from Temple of the Warrior Cluster,” Volume 1, pp. 229–346. 

J. Eric Thompson, Harry E. D. Pollock, and Jean Charlot: A Preliminary Study of the Ruins of Cobá, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication Number 424. Washington D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1932. "Art Analysis of the Macanxoc Stelae," pages 185-192. A short analysis of Stela 20 at Nohoch Mul, quoted in Thompson, "Monuments of the Cobá Region," pages 131-184, page 168.

Art from the Mayans to Disney.  New York: Sheed and Ward, 1939.

Charlot Murals in Georgia, introduction by Lamar Dodd, photographs by Eugene Payor, commentaries by Jean Charlot.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1945. 

Art-Making from Mexico to China.  New York: Sheed and Ward, 1950.

Dance of Death: 50 Drawings and Captions.  New York: Sheed and Ward, 1951.

Choris and Kamehameha.  Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1958.

“Village Fiesta.”  N.d. [1960].  Syracuse: The Mural Program, Syracuse University.

Mexican Art and the Academy of San Carlos, 1785–1915, Foreword by Elizabeth Wilder Weismann, The Texas Pan–American Series.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962.

Posada’s Dance of Death: With four relief engravings by José Guadalupe Posada; Title page wood engraphing by Fritz Eichenberg.  New York: Pratt Graphic Art Center, 1964.

The Mexican Mural Renaissance, 1920–1925.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967.  “Second printing, February 1967.”

This printing contains corrections of the 1963 first edition. See also "Writings Related to The Mexican Mural Renaissance, 1921-1925" in Writings by Jean Charlot: English Texts, below. For the Spanish translation, see below.

Three Plays of Ancient Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1963.

Laukiamanuikahiki, Snare that Lures a Farflung Bird: A Bilingual Playlet, Hawaiian–English.  Honolulu: privately printed, 1964.

Mowentihke Chalman: Los Peregrinos de Chalma: Pieza Para Muñecos.  Honolulu: Mele, 1969.

Edited version in Escritos sobre Arte Mexicano. 

An Artist on Art: Collected Essays of Jean Charlot.  Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972.

Volume 1: Miscellany. 

Volume 2: Mexican Art.

Doors to Many Mansions: Panels Designed by Jean Charlot, Crafted by Evelyn Giddings; Comments by Jean Charlot.  1973.  Honolulu: Punahou School, Robert Shipman Thurston Jr. Memorial Chapel.

José Clemente Orozco: The Artist in New York: Letters to Jean Charlot and Unpublished Writings, 1925-1929, Foreword and Notes by Jean Charlot, Letters and Writings Translated by Ruth L. C. Simms, The Texas Pan American Series. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1974.

Two Hawaiian Plays: Hawaiian English.  Honolulu: published by the author, distributed by the University Press of Hawaii, 1976.

cartoons catholic: mirth and meditation from the brush and brain of jean charlot, with commentary by f. j. Sheed.  Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., 1978.

Inscriptions (Hawaiian and English, to photographs by Robert Wenkam; edited by John Charlot).  1978Tide Calendar.  Honolulu: Dillingham Corporation, 1977.

El renacimiento del muralismo mexicano 1920–1925.  Mexico City: Editorial Domés, 1985.

WRITINGS BY JEAN CHARLOT

Textes Français

Escritos Sobre Arte Mexicano

English Texts UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Poésie/Poetry

Honolulu Newspaper Articles UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Interviews

BOOKS ON JEAN CHARLOT

Paul Claudel: Jean Charlot (Peintres Nouveaux). Paris: nrf, 1931.

obra pictorica de Jean Charlot, 1968.  Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno 1968.

Ethel Moore (ed.), 1976.  Jean Charlot: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints: An Exhibition organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, October 31 to December 5, 1976.  Georgia Museum of Art Bulletin, Volume 2, Number 2, Fall.  Athens: The University of Georgia. 

Portions of this book are posted here with the kind permission of the Bulletin of the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, which has granted rights of reproduction to the Jean Charlot Foundation for this website only.

Stefan Baciu: Jean Charlot: Estridentista Silencioso; Presentación: Manuel Maples Arce; Poema: Germán List Arzubide; Portada: Alfredo Zalce.  Mexico: Editorial “El Café de Nadie,” 1982 (Segunda Edicion Ampliada).

Thomas Klobe (ed.): Jean Charlot: A Retrospective.  Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Art Gallery, 1990.

Milena Koprivitza y Blanca Garduño Pulido (eds.): México en la Obra de Jean Charlot. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1994.

Caroline Klarr: “Painting Paradise for a Post-Colonial Pacific: The Fijian Frescoes of Jean Charlot.”  PhD diss.  The Florida State University School of Visual Arts and Dance, 2005.

John Charlot: Jean Charlot: Life and Work, Volume 1: The French Period. DRAFT, 2006.

WRITINGS ON JEAN CHARLOT

Anita Brenner: "Jean Charlot" 1926.

Anita Brenner: "Jean Charlot." Idols Behind Altars. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1929. pp 303--313.

Anita Brenner: “Foreword.”   jean charlot: Exhibition of Mexican Paintings: January 13th–25th, 1930, The Art Students League, New York, 1930. 

Edward Weston: “Personal Recollections of Charlot in Mexico.”  The Carmelite, February 12, 1931, p. 6.

Copyright 1981 Arizona Board of Regents, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.

Frank Crowninshield: Jean Charlot: Recent Work 1930–1933: January 4–21, John Levy Galleries, New York, 1933.  

James W. Lane: "Jean Charlot (1898-." Masters in Modern Art. Boston: Chapman & Grimes, Mount Vernon Press, 1936, pp. 104--114.

Lincoln Kirstein: “Drawings by Jean Charlot.”  Parnassus, March 1935, pp. 4 f.  

Lincoln Kirstein: Jean Charlot: Recent Work 1933–1936: February 17–March 7, John Levy Galleries, New York, 1936.

“De la Lithographie.” The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club, Number 132, April, 1941.

Emilio Amero: "La Pintura Mural de México" 1947.

Art: "Haymaker." TIME, Volume 52, Number 11, September 13, 1948, p. 75.

Albert Reese: American Prize Prints of the 20th Century.  New York: American Artists Group, 1949, frontispiece, 39, 239.

Jean Charlot’s Fresco Mural: Early Cultural Exchanges between Hawaii and the Outer World: The Waikiki Branch of the Bishop National Bank.  Honolulu: Bishop National Bank of Hawaii, n.d. [ca. 1951].

“A Charlot Fresco.” American Artist, Volume 20, Number 6, Issue 196, June–July–August 1956, pp. 38–41.

Zohmah Charlot: “à propos des peintures murales de M. Jean Charlot à Fidji.”  missions des îles, organe mensuel des missions maristes d’océanie, February–March 1964, pp. 25–42.

Zohmah Charlot: “In Weston’s World.”  Van Deren Coke (ed.): The Charlot Collection of Edward Weston Photographs, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, 1984, pp. 8–12.

[Brenner, Anita]: “The Return of Jean Charlot.”  mexico this month, Volume 14, Number 3, March/April, 1968, pp. 23–30. 

Manuel Maples Arce: “Las Pinturas Murales de Jean Charlot,” El Nacional, Supplemento, September 1954, p. 3.

Manuel Maples Arce: "Recuerdos de Jean Charlot."

Carlos Mérida, Entrevista 1971.

Alfredo Zalce, Interview 1971.

Mira Baciu: “Paul Claudel à Hawaii.”  Rencontres Internationales de Brangues, 1972, pp. 1–5.

Pablo O'Higgins, Interview 1974.

Zohmah Charlot: “The Place of Heavenly Song: The Evolution of a Mural; Zohmah Charlot Describes––Step by Step––Her Husbands Work.”  Beacon, Volume , Number , December 1964, pp. 16 ff., 49 f., 52, 54. 

Zohmah Charlot: “Jean Charlot…: A Fiji Adventure.” The Sketch Book of Kappa Pi, Spring, 1970, pp. 17–24.

Zomah [sic: Zohmah] Charlot: “Jean’s Picture Books.”  The Sketch Book of Kappa Pi, Spring, 1974, pp. 4-11 [unnumbered].

Zohmah Charlot: Faculty Housing.  Honolulu: Mele, 1992 [written 1950s].

Zohmah Charlot: “Making Movies: excerpted from a memoir of 1931.”  Brick, Spring 1996, pp. 3, 37–40.

Mira Baciu-Simian: “Documents Inédits Paul Claudel––Jean Charlot concernant l’Apocalypse.”    Paul Claudel in the Pacific; Journal of the Society of Paul Claudel in the Pacific, Volume 1, Number 1, 1975, pp. 40–51.

Jean Charlot memorial issue.  Mele, Volume 13, Number 40, February 1978.

Peter Morse: “Jean Charlot’s Color Lithographic Technique: An Example.”  Print Review 7, Fall 1976, pp. 28–43.

Peter Morse: “The lithographic innovations of Jean Charlot.”  The Tamarind Papers, Volume 3, Number 1, Autumn 1979, pp. 6 ff., 31.

Juliette May Fraser: “In praise of Jean Charlot,” Honolulu Advertiser, April 9, 1979, p. A-15.

Daniel J. Dever: “Jean Charlot.”  Hawaii Catholic Herald, Volume 42, Number 13, March 30, 1979, p. 1.

Frank Sheed: "Jean Charlot Remembered."

Donald McVicker: "The Painter-Turned-Archaeologist: Jean Charlot at Chichen Itza."

Peter Morse: "Jean Charlot's Technique in Children's Book Illustration."

Peter Morse and John Charlot: Introduction to Escritos sobre Arte Mexicano.

“The legacy of Jean Charlot.”  mâlamalama, Volume 27, Number 2, July–December 2002, pp. 14 f., back cover.

Jean Charlot’s Fresco Mural: Early Cultural Exchanges between Hawaii and the Outer World: First Hawaiian Bank, Waikiki Branch.  Honolulu: First Hawaiian Bank, n.d. [2008].

John Charlot on Jean Charlot.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Cover.  December 26, 1938.  TIME, Volume 32, Number 26.

The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Designed and illustrated by Jean Charlot. Honolulu: The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, n.d.

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