Study for Hispano-America (Panel 14) for The Epic of American Civilization
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
about 1930-1934
Graphite on tracing paper
Sheet: 18 3/4 × 18 in. (47.6 × 45.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through gifts from Kirsten and Peter Bedford, Class of 1989P; Jane and Raphael Bernstein; Walter Burke, Class of 1944; Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Lombard, Class of 1953; Nathan Pearson, Class of 1932; David V. Picker, Class of 1953; Rodman C. Rockefeller, Class of 1954; Kenneth Roman Jr., Class of 1952 and Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
D.988.52.137
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on reverse, lower left: DC 24, 1414; inscribed, on reverse, lower right: 61.1781.22, 238
Course History
SPAN 7, Transforming Public Space: Mural Art in Mexico and the US, Douglas Moody, Winter 2013
LATS 41, Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts, Douglas Moody, Spring 2012
ARTH 71, The “American Century”: Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012
ARTH 16, LACS 48, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012
SPAN 7.2, Transforming Public Space: Mural Art in Mexico and the United States, Douglas Moody, Winter 2015
SART 15, Drawing I, Edward del Rosario, Spring 2015
SART 15, Drawing I, Edward del Rosario, Spring 2015
ARTH 40.04, LACS 30.09, Mexicanidad: Constructing and Dismantling Mexican National Identity, Mary Coffey, Winter 2019
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Spring 2019
SART 15.01, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Spring 2019
SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Winter 2020
SART 15.01, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Fall 2021
Spanish 31.01, Introduction to Hispanic Literature II, Sebastian Diaz, Winter 2023
Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Winter 2023
Studio Art 15.03, Drawing I, Andrew Shea, Fall 2023
Spanish 31.01, Introduction to Hispanic Literature II, Sebastian Diaz, Winter 2024
Spanish 31.02, Introduction to Hispanic Literature II, Sebastian Diaz, Winter 2024
Spanish 31.01, Introduction to Spanish Literature II, Sebastian Diaz, Summer 2024
Spanish 31.01, Introduction to Spanish Literature II, Sebastian Diaz, Summer 2024
Exhibition History
Drawings for the Orozco Murals at Dartmouth College, Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29, 1980.
Men of Fire, Jose Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock, Friends-Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-June 17, 2012.
Orozco: Pintura y Verdad, Instituto Cultural Cabanas, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, March 11-July 11, 2010; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico, September 21-February 27, 2011.
Orozco: Studies for the Murals at Dartmouth, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1962-1963; unconfirmed international itinerary, 1964-1965.
Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 20, 2016-January 8, 2017.
Publication History
Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabanas, 2010, pp.184-185, ill. p.185
Mary K. Coffey, Sharon Lorenzo, Lisa Mintz Messinger, Stephen Polcari, Men of Fire, Jose Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2012, ill. p.75
Provenance
Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.
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