Study of Head for Modern Migration of the Spirit (Panel 18) for The Epic of American Civilization
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
about 1930-1934
Graphite on tracing paper
Overall: 23 7/16 × 18 11/16 in. (59.6 × 47.5 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.988.52.198
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, lower left: 1471; inscribed, on reverse, lower right: 40, 61.1784.3; inscribed, in ink, on reverse: 110
Course History
WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014
LATS 41, Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts, Douglas Moody, Spring 2014
Exhibition History
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.
Publication History
Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 29, no. 11
Provenance
Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.
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