The Requiem (alternate titles: El Réquiem; Requiem; Velorio)
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1928
Lithograph on wove paper
Unnumbered print (edition of 100, some unnumbered)
Image: 11 7/8 × 15 15/16 in. (30.2 × 40.5 cm)
Sheet: 15 15/16 × 22 11/16 in. (40.5 × 57.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City
2014.54
Printer
George C. Miller
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Initialed, in stone: J. C. O.; signed, in graphite, lower right margin, José Clemente Orozco; no inscriptions on back
Course History
ARTH 72, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2015
ARTH 40.04, LACS 30.09, Mexicanidad: Constructing and Dismantling Mexican National Identity, Mary Coffey, Winter 2019
ANTH 50.17, Rites of Passage, Sienna Craig, Spring 2020
ARTH 40.04/LACS 30.09, Mexicanidad, Mary Coffey, Winter 2022
Latin American/Caribbean Studies 47.01/History 83.01, 20th Century Latin America, Thamyris Almeida, Winter 2023
Publication History
Mary K. Coffey, "Feeling Brown or Acting White? Spectacles of Racialized Performance and Pain in José Clemente Orozco's U.S.-based Prints," American Art, vol.37, no.2, Summer 2023, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, pp. 2-27, ill. p. 11, fig.4.
Published References
Mello, Renato González, and Diane Miliotes, eds. Jose´ Clemente Orozco in the United States: 1927-1934 ;. New York: Norton, 2002. Hood Museum of Art. Orozco, Jose´ C, and Jon H. Hopkins. Orozco; a Catalogue of His Graphic Work. Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University Publications, 1967. Orozco, V C, and Jose´ C. Orozco. Jose´ Clemente Orozco: Graphic Work. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pages 16-17 focus on Requiem.
Provenance
Weyhe Gallery, Mount Desert, Maine; sold to present collection, 2014.
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