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Jean Charlot
Mother Carrying Child on her Back (Mujer cargando un niño en la espalda)1934

Not on view
Lithograph of a woman in profile carrying a sleeping infant on her back in a gray shawl, rendered in terracotta and slate gray tones
Artist or Maker
Jean Charlot
France, active Mexico, New York, and Hawaii, 1898-1979
Title
Mother Carrying Child on her Back (Mujer cargando un niño en la espalda)
Place Made
Mexico and United States
Date Made
1934
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 26 3/4 × 20 in. (67.95 × 50.8 cm) Image: 25 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (64.77 × 49.53 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Merle Armitage
Accession Number
40.2.1
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Morse, Peter. Jean Charlot's Prints: a catalogue raisonné. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1976.
  • Davis, Bruce and Ebria Feinblatt. Los Angeles Prints: 1883-1980. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980.
Copyright
© The Jean Charlot Estate LLC / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York