The Relatives of Icarus (Los Parientes de Icaro)
Xavier Esqueda, Mexican, born 1943
about 1965
Oil and collage on composition board
Overall: 14 5/8 × 11 1/2 in. (37.2 × 29.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
© Xavier Esqueda
P.965.105
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: X. Esqueda; Label, on reverse: GALERIA DE ANTONIO SOUZA / Autor Xavier Esqueda / Tecnica College / Titulo Los Parientes de Icaro / Fecha 65 / Paseo de la Reforma / 334-A y BERNA 3 Mexico, D.F.
Course History
ARTH 16, Mexican Art, Mary Coffey, Fall 2012
ARTH 16, Mexican Art, Mary Coffey, Fall 2012
FILM 47, Cut & Paste Cinema, Jodie Mack, Winter 2012
SART 25, Painting I, Tom Ferrara, Fall 2013
WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014
ITAL 1, Introductory Italian I, Scott Millspaugh, Spring 2014
SART 17, Special Topics: Digital Painting, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2014
SART 20, Drawing II, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2014
FILM 44.02/SART 17.19, Cut and Paste Cinema, Jodie Mack, Spring 2019
SART 31, Painting II, Thomas Ferrara, Spring 2019
SART 25, SART 31, Painting I, Painting II, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2021
SART 25.01, Painting I, Tom Ferrara, Fall 2021
SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/III, Tom Ferrara, Fall 2021
SART 76, Senior Seminar, Enrico Riley, Winter 2022
HIST 87.01, Culture and Identity in Modern Mexico, Bryan Winston, Winter 2022
Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Lucy Mink Covello, Winter 2024
Exhibition History
Artists at Dartmouth, A Retrospective of Selected Artists-in-Residence at Darthmouth College since 1962, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September-October, 1971; Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, October 14-30, 1971; Montgomery Museum, Montgomery, Alabama, April-May 1972.
Galeria de Antonio Souza, Mexico City, Mexico, about 1965.
In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-July 6, 2014.
Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 26,2009-March 15, 2010.
Xavier Esqueda, Artist-in-Residence: Fall 1965, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, opened November 9, 1965.
Publication History
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.54, no.31.
Peter Smith and Mathew Wysocki, Artists at Dartmouth, A retrospective of selected Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College since 1962, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1971, ill. no page number.
Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 52 , no. 35
Provenance
The artist; sold to present collection, November 1965.
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