The Epic of American Civilization: Modern Migration of the Spirit (Panel 18)
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1932-1934
Fresco
Overall: 127 1/2 × 126 1/4 in. (323.9 × 320.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College
P.934.13.21
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
Peggy Rosenthal, The Poets ~ Jesus: How He Figures After 2000 Years, New York: Oxford University Press, March 2000
Jeanne Siegel, Painting After Pollock: Structures of Influence, Singapore: Overseas Publishers Association, The Gordon and Breach Publishing Group, 1999, ill. p. 162
Kirk Varnedoe with Pepe Karmel, Jackson Pollock, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1998, pp. 26-27, figs. 11 + 12.
H. H. Arnason.-4th ed./Marla Prather, revising author, History of Modern Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998, p. 430, ill. p. 430.
Edward J. Sullivan, ed., Latin American Art in the 20th Century, London: Phaidon Press, 1996, 352 p.
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. 81
Jaroslav Pelikan, The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, ill. p. 230
Vivette Porges, Joshua Simon and Robert Sullivan, Who Do You Say That I Am?: Reflections on Jesus in Our World Today, New York: Macmillan, 1996, ill. p. 33
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
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
Wolfgang Baur, Welt und Umwelt der Bibel - Redaktion, Christis in der Kunst der Neuzeit, Stuttgart, Germany: Belser Verlag, s.o., 4/ 2000, ill. p. 80.
Robert Elinor, Buddha and Christ: Images of Wholeness, 1st. ed., Trumbull, Connecticut: Weatherhill, Inc., 2000, ill. p. 177.
Marek Bartelik, The Life and Art of Adja Yunkers: To Invent a Garden, New York: Hudson Hill Press, 2000, 140 p.
Variuos authors, Jesus: 2000 Years of Faith, Lucerne; Freiburg: Herder Verlag, October 1999, 240 pp., ill. p. 196.
American Art Magazine, James Oles, Noguchi in Mexico: International Themes for a Working-Class Market, Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Summer 2001, pp. 10-30, ill. p. 26, no. 12.
Editorial Clio, Orozco segun Orozco, (Video-in Spanish), Delagacion Coyoacan, Mexico: Editorial Clio, 1998, approx. 43 minutes.
Marjorie L. Harth, Jose Clemente Orozco: Prometheus, Pomona, California: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2001, pp. 39-45, ill. p. 43, fig. 27.
Clinton C. Gardner, Beyond Belief: Discovering Christianity's New Paradigm, White River Junction, Vermont: White River Press, 2008, 263 pp., cover ill (color).
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. 101, fig. 4.
Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabanas, 2010, pp.166-181, ill. p.177.
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.52, page xiv, figure 8.
Margit Kern, Transkulturelle Imaginationen des Opfers in der Fruhen Neuzeit, Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, Neue Grunstrabe 17, 468 pp., ill. p. 339.
Elizabeth L. Langhorne, Jackson Pollock: Kunst als Sinnsuche: Abstraktion, All-Over, Action Painting, Wallerstein: Hawel-Verlag, 2013, 468 pp., ill. p. 42.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 155, ill. plate no. 86.
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.
Brandon Taylor, Make it Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022, pp. 202-203, ill. p. 203.
Provenance
Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1932.
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