Picture Book, 1933

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Medium

bound volume with thirty-two chromolithographs on wove paper in a cardboard slipcase

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy

Accession Number

2016.148.19.1-32

Artists / Makers

Jean Charlot (artist) American, born France, 1898 - 1979

Paul Claudel (author) French, 1868 - 1955

Will A. Kistler Company (printer)

Lynton R. Kistler (printer) American, 1897 - 1993

Merle Armitage (designer) American, 1893 - 1975

John Becker (publisher)

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Inscription

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

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

Stana and Thomas Judy, Robert