Tres Generaciones (Three Generations); La familia (The Family)
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1929
Lithograph on wove paper
Edition of probably 100
Image: 10 3/8 × 14 7/8 in. (26.4 × 37.8 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 21 15/16 in. (40.4 × 55.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Marc F. Efron, Class of 1965 and Barbara Bares
PR.2001.44.3
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right, beneath image: Jose Clemente Orozco; lower left: #4 Three Generations
Course History
ARTH 16, LACS 48, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012
ARTH 7, Orozco, Mary Coffey, Spring 2014
ARTH 72, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2015
ARTH 40.04, LACS 30.09, Mexicanidad: Constructing and Dismantling Mexican National Identity, Mary Coffey, Winter 2019
Latin American/Caribbean Studies 47.01/History 83.01, 20th Century Latin America, Thamyris Almeida, Winter 2023
Spanish 3.01, Spanish III, Doug Moody, Fall 2023
Exhibition History
Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 8-December 15, 2002; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, 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, fig. 303, listed and ill. p.291.
Mary Coffey, "Jose Clemente Orozco’s Dancing Indians" The Art Bulletin December 2020, vol. 201, no. 4: 90-120.
Mary K. Coffey, "Feeling Brown or Acting White? Spectacles of Racialized Performance and Pain in José Clemente Orozco's U.S.-based Prints," American Art, vol.37, no.2, Summer 2023, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, pp. 2-27, ill. p. 10, fig. 3.
Provenance
Marc Efron and Barbara Bares; given to present collection, 2001.
Catalogue Raisonne
C. Orozco, Catalogo completo de la obra grafica de Orozco, 1970, no. 18.
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