Jean Charlot

El Volador

1949

Gigantic puppet soldier looms over a building while a bird flies nearby.
Gigantic puppet soldier looms over a building while a bird flies nearby.

Jean Charlot, El Volador, 1949. Lithograph, sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 1/16 in. (42.9 × 33.2 cm) Image: 14 × 9 15/16 in. (35.6 × 25.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Neifeld-Russak Families 2004.728. © The Jean Charlot Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1949

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 1/16 in. (42.9 × 33.2 cm) Image: 14 × 9 15/16 in. (35.6 × 25.2 cm)

Accession number
2004.728

Edition
Ed. 250

Publication
Printed by Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; published by Associated American Artists

Credit line
Gift of the Neifeld-Russak Families

Rights and reproductions
© The Jean Charlot Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/19988



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