1951.96 Jean Charlot, First Steps, 1936

In the early 1920s, Jean Charlot visited Mexico for the first time. These lithographs, like the majority of Charlot’s work, demonstrate his observation of indigenous populations and desire to capture what he believed to be the tender and innocent spirit of Mexican culture. He remained deeply interested in, and wrote extensively about, Mexican art, often revisiting and reimagining the nation’s visual environments when he resided in the United States and France.

Tower Gallery: Latin American Art, Label text, 2017.

Charlot_Jean: ULAN: 500027773

France (nation): TGN: 1000070

Paris (France): TGN: 7008038

Honolulu (inhabited place / Hawaii): TGN: 7013718

Hawaii (state/United States): TGN: 7007249

Colorado (state/United States): TGN: 7007158

New York (New York/United States): TGN: 7007567

United States (nation): TGN: 7012149

Mexico (nation): TGN: 7005560

lithographs (planographic prints): AAT: 300041379

lithography: AAT: 300053271

prints (visual works): AAT: 300041273

works on paper: AAT: 300189621

figures (representations): AAT: 300189808

human figures: AAT: 300404114

female: AAT: 300189557

women (female humans): AAT: 300025943

mothers: AAT: 300025932

youth (life stages): AAT: 300305226

children (people by age group): AAT: 300025945

adulthood: AAT: 300189598

standing: AAT: 300239500

walking: AAT: 300248181

life (biological concepts): AAT: 300055134

portrait: AAT: 300015637

events (activities): AAT: 300069084

dresses (garments): AAT: 300046159

capes (outerwear): AAT: 300046140

shawls (perraje / outwear): AAT: 300209991

Pre-Columbian (American): AAT: 300016619

population (demographics): AAT: 300055417

human (culture): AAT: 300393250

humans (homo sapiens species): AAT: 300265711

culture: AAT: 300055768

spirit: AAT: 300379007

interior spaces: AAT: 300078790

Until 1951: Galleria de Arte Mexicana, Mexico City [Ines Amor, dealer] [1], [2], [3]

From 1951: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Art Association Purchase [1], [2], [3], [4]

[1] The main source for this provenance was existing information in TMS (in Dallas Museum of Art Digital Collections Records Object Files). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.  

[2] The main source for this provenance is letter from Ines Amor, Galleria de Arte Mexicana, Mexico City, to Jerry Bywaters, Director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (dated September 04, 1951, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[3] The main source for this provenance is letter (inventory list) from Ines Amor, Galleria de Arte Mexicana, Mexico City (dated September 04, 1951, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records Object File, Confidential). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[4] The Dallas Art Association is the predecessor to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. The name was abandoned in 1970. Works from this collection were transferred to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.

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