{"id":47522,"date":"2016-07-13T09:25:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T19:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=47522"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:32:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:32:32","slug":"bronwen-solyom-passionate-curator-of-charlot-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/13\/bronwen-solyom-passionate-curator-of-charlot-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronwen Solyom: Passionate curator of Jean Charlot collection at Hamilton Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youtube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cy9ODCAKF9s?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe last 15 years have been astounding,\u201d declared <strong>Bronwen \u201cBron\u201d Solyom<\/strong>, curator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.manoa.hawaii.edu\/departments\/charlotcoll\/charlot.php\">Jean Charlot collection<\/a> at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/library.manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">Hamilton Library<\/a>. After some 22 years working as a librarian for the university, Solyom was tapped to be the curator of a vast collection generously donated by the Charlot family: 2,500 books and journals, 2,000 works on paper and 772 images from his master set of prints. \u201cIt\u2019s bottomless, I\u2019ve been here 15 years and I\u2019m still looking in every folder and every drawer,\u201d said Solyom.<\/p>\n<p>Jean Charlot (1898-1979) was a renowned artist most widely known for his fresco murals, but also a teacher, art historian, author and philosopher. Born in France, he lived and worked in many places including Mexico and New York before finally settling in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> in 1949. That same year, he painted <em>Relation of Man and Nature in Old <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span><\/em> on the first floor of Bachman Hall on the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust one of my favorite pieces in this collection is a beautiful painting, <em>Idol<\/em> a large nude,\u201d said Solyom. \u201cThe model was Luz Jim\u00e9nez who was the subject of many of Charlot\u2019s images and a close friend of the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking back at her years as curator Solyom, who retired in June 2016, reflected, \u201cThis collection attracts so many interesting people and they all come with different agendas and different kinds of information. Because of the huge and unexpected scope of this collection we provide them with answers, they send us their books, they send us their other publications and it\u2019s extremely satisfying in that way. I also love it when I have classes or interns, I look at that with great happy memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47541\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47541\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-library-solyom.jpg\" alt=\"Solyom with artwork by Jean Charlot\" width=\"620\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-library-solyom.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-library-solyom-260x144.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bronwen Solyom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">Jean Charlot found himself greatly attracted to Native Hawaiian culture, just as he had been interested in the folk aspects of the residents of rural France and the indigenous peoples of Mexico. Four Charlot murals can be found on the <abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa campus: <em>Relation of Man and Nature in Old <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span><\/em>, 1949, Bachman Hall, first floor; <em>Commencement<\/em>, 1953, Bachman Hall, Second floor; <em>Night Hula<\/em>, 1961, ceramic tile, Saunders Hall; <em>Inspiration Study<\/em>, 1967, Jefferson Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/jcf\/\">The Jean Charlot Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extensive collection of work by artist by Jean Charlot is a passion of retiring M&#257;noa librarian Bronwen Solyom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":47535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[105,207,128,9,56],"class_list":["post-47522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-art","tag-library","tag-manoa-library","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/manoa-library-solyom-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47522"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174194,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47522\/revisions\/174194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}