Study for Ancient Human Sacrifice (Panel 3) for The Epic of American Civilization
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
about 1930-1934
Graphite on cream paper
Overall: 20 7/8 × 15 1/2 in. (53 × 39.3 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.988.52.33
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, upper left: Oeste 9' x 10'6"; inscribed, in graphite, scattered: 8, 22, 11 1/2, 12, 11, 18; inscribed, authentication, on reverse, lower right; inscribed, on reverse, lower right: 1210, 61.1772.17; inscribed, in ink, on reverse, lower left: 2@DC
Course History
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
Exhibition History
Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, March 9-May 19, 2002; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 8-December 15, 2002; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico, January 25-April 13, 2003.
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; Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, August 2-October 27, 2012.
Publication History
Renato Gonzalez Mello and Diane Miliotes, Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College (Copublished by W.W. Norton and Company), 2002, p. 169, fig. 210, listed p.294.
Provenance
Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.
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