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Colburn, New York, NY, by 2008; gifted to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2008.","remarks":"Colburn born March 1956. "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"In the 1920s and 1930s artists like Mérida, Charlot, and Covarrubias sought to create a modern art based on the Indigenous aesthetics of Mexico and Central America. Each artist also undertook scholarly studies of Indigenous art: Charlot served as a draftsman for an archaeological expedition at Chichén Itzá; Mérida received government support to study Indigenous cultures of Mexico; and Covarrubias, whose set design for a Mexica-inspired ballet is shown here, wrote and illustrated the multivolume Indian Art of the Americas. Charlot’s Cuautitlán was published in Design magazine in an illustration of various Mexica (also known as Aztec) glyphs. 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