DETAILS
- Artist
- Jean Charlot
- Date
- 1947
- Medium
- Color lithograph on paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- 28.4 × 23.6 cm (11 3/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- United States
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph R. Shapiro
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THE ARTIST
Jean Charlot
Jean Charlot, a French-born American artist, was a pivotal figure in the birth of Mexican muralism, creating the first fresco in the movement.
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