The Epic of American Civilization: Gods of the Modern World (Panel 15)
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1932-1934
Fresco
Overall: 120 × 119 in. (304.8 × 302.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College
P.934.13.17
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
Justin Spring, The Essential Jackson Pollock, New York: The Wonderland Press, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., September 1998, p. 35.
Kirk Varnedoe with Pepe Karmel, Jackson Pollock, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1998, pp. 26-27, figs. 11 + 12.
Paul Buhle and Edmund B. Sullivan, Images of American Radicalism, Hanover, Mass.: The Christopher Publishing House, c1998, 462 p.
William Fleming, Arts and Ideas, 9/e, Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1995, 722 p.
Stephen Strack, ed., Death and the Quest for Meaning: Essays in Honor of Herman Feifel, Northvale, NJ: J. Aronson, c1997, 408 p.
series Mexican Art Abroad, Mexico: Grupo Azabache, September 1994.
Katharine Baetjer, Lisa Mintz Messinger, Nan Rosenthal, The Jackson Pollock Sketchbooks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, ill. p. 82
Francois Sirel, Histoire 1re: Le Monde du milieu du XIXe siecle a 1939, Paris: Editions Magnard, 1997, ill. p.73
Jesus Torrecilla, Spanish 2155 (Louisiana State University, Correspondence Course on Spanish Literature), L.S.U., 1994, p. 27.
Jurgen Harten (ed.), Siqueiros/Pollock; Pollock/Siqueiros, Band II: Essays/Dokumentation, Dusseldorf: Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, DuMont Buchverlag und Autoren, 1995, ill. p. 46, figure 9
Mike Venezia, Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists: Jackson Pollock, Chicago: Children's Press, 1994, p.23.
Liz Dawtrey, Tobey Jackson, Mary Masterton, Pam Meecham, Paul Wood, eds., Investigating Modern Art, New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with The Open University, The Arts Council of England and the Tate Gallery, 1996, ill. p. 122
Desmond Rochfort, Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Singapore: Laurence King Publishing, 1993, pp.99-119, ill. p. 108
Frederick Hartt, Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993
Master Works of Mexican Art in the World, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Institute Matias Romero for Diplomatic Studies, 1993
Robert Atkins, Art Spoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848-1944, New York: Abbeville Press, 1993, ill. p. 138.
William H. Forbes, The Makers of Mexico, Worldwise, Hanover, N.H.: South-North News Service, 1992
Edmund Burke Feldman, Varieties of Visual Experience, 4th ed., New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1992, pp. 45-47, ill. p. 46
Claude Cernuschi, Jackson Pollock: "Psychoanalytic Drawings", Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1992, p. 119, ill. p.119.
Roger E. Wiehe and Zaitchik, Human Values: PErspectives on Six Themes, Madison: William C. Brown Co. Publishers, 1992
Images of the American Experience, A Multicultural Art Perspective for Grades 7 & 8, Brooklyn: New York City Board of Eduction, 1992
Page Smith, Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America , New York: Viking, Published by the Penguin Group, 1990, Cover
Pictures of Dartmouth. Editors Bradley and Grantham, Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England
Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel, eds., Jackson Pollock: New Approaches, NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1999, 248 pp., ill. p. 49.
Helen Husher, "Mural High Ground", Seven Days Newspaper, Georgia, Vermont: B.D. Press, May 10, 2000, vol. 5, no. 37, p. 12.
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.
Editorial Clio, Orozco segun Orozco, (Video-in Spanish), Delagacion Coyoacan, Mexico: Editorial Clio, 1998, approx. 43 minutes.
Consejo Estatal de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Programa Estatal de Cienca y Tecnologia del Estado de Jalisco: Pecytjal 2001-2007, Guadalajara, Jal: Gubierno del Estado de Jalisco, 2003, 384 pp., cropped color ill. p. 283.
Marjorie L. Harth, Jose Clemente Orozco: Prometheus, Pomona, California: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2001, pp. 39-45, ill. p. 42, fig. 26.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 180-181, ill. p. 180, fig. 88.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, ill p. 107.
Angela L. Miller, Janet C. Berlo, Bryan J. Wolf and Jennifer L. Roberts, American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd., New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008, 685 pp., ill. p. 522.
Jacquelynn Baas, Orozco: Violent Visions in a Silent Space, Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, Spring 2008: University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies, 73 pp., ill. p. 38.
Nichola Tucker, The Epic of American Civilization as Performative Epic: Student Viewers as Heroes and the Re-Enactment of History, The Collegiate Journal of Art, Spring 2008, Volume IV, 2008, pp. 97-110, ill. p. 107, fig. 9.
Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabanas, 2010, pp.166-181, ill. p.174.
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; xii, fig.4.
Mette Haakonsen, Mexican Demons and Dancing Skeletons: Dr. Lakra in DIalogue with Posada, Denmark: Holstebro Kunstmuseums Forlag, 2012, p. 56, fig. 42.
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
Tableau, The Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, Chicago, 2013, ill. p. 2.
Elizabeth L. Langhorne, Jackson Pollock: Kunst als Sinnsuche: Abstraktion, All-Over, Action Painting, Wallerstein: Hawel-Verlag, 2013, 468 pp., ill. pp. 41 and 42.
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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