Study for Modern Industrial Man (left panel, 1 of 3, Panel 20) for The Epic of American Civilization
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
about 1930-1934
Graphite on paper
Sheet: 20 3/8 × 9 1/2 in. (51.8 × 24.1 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.988.52.222
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, upper center: Navigation - Ships, Engineering - Arch Iron & Steel. anchor, plow, tools, anvil, wheel, horseshoe; inscribed, lower left: Dartmouth; inscribed, on reverse, upper left: 1258; inscribed, on reverse, lower left: 48 @ D; inscribed, on reverse, lower right: 61.1785.13, 48@
Course History
SPAN 7.02, Mural Art in Mexico and U.S, Douglas Moody, Spring 2020
SPAN 7.02, Mural Art in Mexico, Douglas Moody, Spring 2021
SPAN 7.02, Mural Art in Mexico, Douglas Moody, Spring 2021
Exhibition History
Drawings for the Orozco Murals at Dartmouth College, Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29, 1980.
Orozco: Studies for the Murals at Dartmouth, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1962-1963; unconfirmed international itinerary, 1964-1965.
Provenance
Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.
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