Study of a Hand (Back) for the mural Man Released from the Mechanistic to the Creative Life
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
about 1932
Graphite and red chalk on tracing paper mounted to laid paper
Overall: 16 5/8 × 13 5/16 in. (42.2 × 33.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Benjamin Weiss
D.992.20.1
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right: J. C. Orozco
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.
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. 157, fig. 196, listed p.293.
Provenance
Benjamin Weiss; given to present collection, 1992.
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