Study for The Pre-Columbian Golden Age (Panel 6) for The Epic of American Civilization
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
about 1930-1934
Ink on paper
Overall: 8 7/16 × 14 in. (21.5 × 35.5 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.988.52.64
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, upper left and lower right: L-615
Course History
ARTH 16, LACS 48, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012
Provenance
Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.
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