Joseph Jacinto Mora (1876-1947)

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Joseph Jacinto Mora - "Carmel-By-The-Sea" - Color lithograph - 18 3/8" x 24 1/4" - Copyright: 1942 Jo Mora Publications - <br>Monterey, California lower right image <br>Published: 1942 Jo Mora Publications <br>Signature: Made by Jo Mora - lower right image <br> <br>NOTE: Jo made this map for the people of Carmel with a general history and current (1942) events, activities, and local people. Jo was also quite a dog lover and he included some of the town's dogs, gifted with personality, including his own dog Mike Mora. An unknown quantity of these maps had an advertising line added to the lower right margin in blue ink "50c with mailing tube - Jo Mora Publications, Monterey, Ca." was added for stores and places of business that had them on display. <br> <br>Provenance: <br>Carmel-by-the-Sea once hung in Hugh Comstock's studio in Carmel. <br>His immediate success required him to expand his workspace from his home (1925) at the NE corner of 6th and Torres, to the adjacent lot and studio. The Comstock Studio is significant as the workspace for Carmel designer/master builder Hugh Comstock (1897-1950) during the productive period of his life and as an example of the Storybook style of residential architecture he introduced in the mid 1920’s that has shaped, in part, the residential character of Carmel to the present.
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Joseph Jacinto Mora
"Carmel-By-The-Sea"
1942

Joseph Jacinto Mora - "Del Monte Forest" - Oil on masonite - 6' x 4' - Jo Mora was a true Renaissance man – <br>sculptor, painter, muralist, etcher, illustrator, cartoonist, map-maker, saddle-maker, photographer, author, actor, designer of everything from coins and book-plates to houses – leaving us a remarkable legacy. He devoted his life to exploration of subjects as diverse as vaqueros, Hopi Kachina figures, the Arizona landscape, and California missions. <br> <br>SFB Morse personally commissioned his close friend, artist Jo Mora, to paint this mural for his Del Monte Real Estate office to help sell lots in Pebble Beach in the late 1930s. <br> <br>This mural represents a rare direct link to the artistic and commercial heritage in the development of the Del Monte Forest - Pebble Beach. It illustrates the layout of the three golf courses at the time and the various topographical elevations of the Del Monte Forest surrounded by Mora's whimsical depictions of his favorite forest friends - squirrels up in the Monterey Pines and the California quail below.
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Joseph Jacinto Mora
"Del Monte Forest"
1938

Joseph Jacinto Mora - "Yosemite" - Color lithograph - 17 3/4" x 13 7/8" - Copyright: 1931 (same as original) center bottom image <br>Published: 1949 The Curry Company <br>Signature: Jo Mora (same as original) lower right image <br> <br>In 1949 Jo Mora Jr. sold the copyright to this map to the Curry Company, which included the original plates the black and white carte was printed from. These plates were never used and now appear to be lost. The Curry Company then decided to update the map further. The major change was to delete the Coulterville Road which meant changing the whole lower left of the map. This was done by another artist, because Jo died in 1947.
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Joseph Jacinto Mora
"Yosemite"
1949