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Jo Mora

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(Jo Mora Mural) This reproduction of the famous Canterbury Murals by the Carmel artist is a gift to you by the management of the Hotel Canterbury

Publication Place / Date

San Francisco, CA / 1925

Image Dimensions

15.5 x 9.25 inches

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VG+

Stock# 88545

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Rare separate Jo Mora illustration of the mounted characters from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, first produced as a mural for the Hotel Canterbury, and here as a promotional illustrated giveaway for that San Francisco hotel.

This item is evidently quite rare, as internet keyword and image searches do not uncover another example.

The image is redolent of Mora's characteristic colors and styles.

Jo Mora Biography

Joseph Jacinto "Jo" Mora, born 22 October 1876 in Uruguay, died 10 October 1947 in Monterey California. Mora came to the United States as a child, he studied art in New York, then worked for Boston newspapers as a cartoonist. He was a man of many other talents, artist-historian, sculptor, painter, photographer, illustrator, muralist and author. In 1903, Mora came to California, then in 1904 he moved to Keams Canyon in northeast Arizona, living with the Hopi and Navajo Indians. He learned their languages and photographed and painted an ethnological record, particularly of the Kachina ceremonial dances. In 1907, he married Grace Needham and they moved to Mountain View, California. He moved to Pebble Beach in 1922 and established a home and large studio there, it being near the Carmel Mission (San Carlos Borroméo De Carmelo Mission) after being commissioned to do the Serra Sarcophagus* for Padre (Father) Ramon Mestres.

During his long and productive career, Mora illustrated a number of books including Animals of Aesop (1900), Dawn and the Dons - The Romance of Monterey (1926), Benito and Loreta Delfin, Children of Alta California (1932), and Fifty Funny Animal Tales (1932). He authored three books, A Log of the Spanish Main (1933), Trail Dust and Saddle Leather (1946) and his posthumous publication, Californios (1949).

His map work included Monterey Peninsula (1927), and Seventeen Mile Drive (1927), California (1927), San Diego (1928), Grand Canyon (1931), Yosemite (1931), Yellowstone (1936), Carmel-By-The-Sea (1942), California (1945) (large and small versions), and Map of Los Angeles (1942).