Picture Book
1933
Artist, American, born France, 1898 - 1979
Author, French, 1868 - 1955
Printer
Printer, American, 1897 - 1993
Designer, American, 1893 - 1975
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with thirty-two chromolithographs on wove paper in a cardboard slipcase
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 27.94 × 21.91 × 1.59 cm (11 × 8 5/8 × 5/8 in.)
case: 28.58 × 22.54 × 1.91 cm (11 1/4 × 8 7/8 × 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2016.148.19.1-32
Associated Artworks
See all 32 artworksRaising of Lazarus
Jean Charlot, Will A. Kistler Company, John Becker
1933
La Nana
Jean Charlot, Will A. Kistler Company, John Becker
1933
Sacrifice of Isaac
Jean Charlot, Will A. Kistler Company, John Becker
1933
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(S.F. Art Book Fair, San Francisco, California, sale, 1991); acquired at sale by Bob Stana and Tom Judy, Washington, D.C., 1991; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
center right colophon in black ink: 401. / Jean / Charlot / Lynton R. Kistler / Merle Armitage; printed text on colophon:: These 32 original chromolitho- / graphs were drawn directly on the / plates by Jean Charlot, and printed / under the technical supervision of / Will A. Kistler. Format designed / by Merle Armitage. Type hand- / set by Lynton R. Kistler. Printed / at the plant of the Will A. Kistler / Company. Offset presswork by / Edward Broughton. Limited to / 500 numbered copies signed by / Jean Charlot, Lynton R. Kistler / and Merle Armitage. Copies 1 to / 32 inclusive contain a set of the progressive proofs. / Los Angeles, 1933