The Epic of American Civilization: Anglo-America (Panel 13)
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1932-1934
Fresco
Overall: 120 × 103 in. (304.8 × 261.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College
P.934.13.15
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
On view
Inscriptions
Signed, east wall (Panel 11): J. C. Orozco / Febrero 13, 1934
Course History
ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022
ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022
ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022
ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022
ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Fall 2022
WRIT 2.06, Composition and Research I, Doug Moody, Fall 2022
Writing Program 5.08, Reviewing Ourselves: Critical Writing and Personal Values, Bill Craig, Winter 2023
Latino Studies 37.01, Migrant Lives and Labor, Doug Moody, Spring 2023
Geography 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Fall 2023
Writing 5.09, Reviewing Ourselves: Critical Writing and Personal Values, Bill Craig, Winter 2024
Writing 5.08, Reviewing Ourselves: Critical Writing and Personal Values, Bill Craig, Winter 2024
Geography 33.01, Geopolitics and Third World Development, Geneva Smith, Spring 2024
Tuck Facilitated Experience: Tuck School Conference Group, Summer 2023
Thayer Facilitated Experience: Climate Risk Management Group, Summer 2023
Exhibition History
Public Art, Reserve Corridor, Baker-Berry Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1934.
Publication History
series Mexican Art Abroad, Mexico: Grupo Azabache, September 1994.
James Diego Vigil, From Indians to Chicanos: The dynamics of Mexican-American Culture, 2nd edition, Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, Inc., 1998, ill. p. 128
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins and Shifra M. Goldman, In the Spirit of Resistance: African-American Modernists and the Mexican Muralist School, New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1996, ill. p. 103
Constance M. Montross, Esther L. Levine, Vistas: Voices del Mundo Hispanico, 2nd edition, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Inc., ill. p. 1
Jane Benson Ackerman, The Hood Museum of Art: Ten Years of Making Art at Home in the Upper Valley, Upper Valley Magazine, November/December 1995, Volume 9, No. 6, Van Etten, Inc., 1995, pp. 22-29, ill. p. 28
Desmond Rochfort, Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Singapore: Laurence King Publishing, 1993, pp.99-119, ill. p. 106
Master Works of Mexican Art in the World, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Institute Matias Romero for Diplomatic Studies, 1993
Carlos Fuentes, The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World, Boston, New York, London: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992, ill. p. 348.
Dartmouth Remembered, Bequests & Trusts, Dartmouth College
Paul Bohannan, We, the Alien: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.,1992, ill. p. 209
Patricia Harris y David Lyon, Resplandeciente: "Epopeya de la civilizacion americana", de Orozco, Americas, Volumen 42, Numero 1, 1990, ill. p.59
Patricia Harris, Art of the State of New Hampshire, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000, 96 p., ill.
Kathleen A. Foster, Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals, Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum in association with Indiana University Press, 2000, 200 pp., ill. p. 152.
Esther L. Levine and Constance M. Montross, Vistas y voces latinas, 3rd. ed., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2001, 212 pp., ill. p. 45.
Editorial Clio, Orozco segun Orozco, (Video-in Spanish), Delagacion Coyoacan, Mexico: Editorial Clio, 1998, approx. 43 minutes.
Mary Cooper, New England as America: Jose Clemente Orozco's Anglo-America, The Collegiate Journal of Art, Spring 2008, Volume IV, 2008, pp. 82-96, ill. p. 83.
Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabanas, 2010, pp.166-181, ill. p.175.
Mary K. Coffey, Sharon Lorenzo, Lisa Mintz Messinger, Stephen Polcari, Men of Fire, Jose Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2012, ill. p.53; p.26, fig. 50.
Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 14, fig. 21
Susan J. Boutwell, "Orozco Murals One of 13 New National Historic Landmarks" in The Dartmouth Now, 2013.
Elizabeth L. Langhorne, Jackson Pollock: Kunst als Sinnsuche: Abstraktion, All-Over, Action Painting, Wallerstein: Hawel-Verlag, 2013, 468 pp., ill. p. 41.
Barbara Haskell, Vida Americana, Mexican Muralist Remake American Art, 1925-1945, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2020, ill. pp. 36-37, fig. 17.
Warren Carter, ed., Art after Empire: From Colonialism to Globalisation, Manchester: Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, 2018, pp. 84-89, ill. p. 87, fig. 2.24.
Provenance
Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1932.
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