Study for Ancient Human Sacrifice (Panel 3) for The Epic of American Civilization
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
about 1930-1934
Gouache, watercolor on paper
Sheet: 20 × 14 3/4 in. (50.8 × 37.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through gifts from Kirsten and Peter Bedford, Class of 1989P; Jane and Raphael Bernstein; Walter Burke, Class of 1944; Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Lombard, Class of 1953; Nathan Pearson, Class of 1932; David V. Picker, Class of 1953; Rodman C. Rockefeller, Class of 1954; Kenneth Roman Jr., Class of 1952 and Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
W.988.52.23
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, upper left: Oeste 8'11" x 10'6"; inscribed, lower right: 256; inscribed, on reverse, upper left: 1580; inscribed, on reverse, lower left: 1580; inscribed, on reverse, lower right: 1580, DC 8, 61.1772.10
Course History
LATS 41, Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts, Douglas Moody, Spring 2012
ARTH 71, The “American Century”: Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012
ARTH 16, LACS 48, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
ARTH 7, Orozco, Mary Coffey, Spring 2014
ARTH 72, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2015
SPAN 7.05, Transforming Public Space: Mural Art in Mexico and the United States, Douglas Moody, Winter 2019
LATS 41, Latinos in Media and Arts, Douglas Moody, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
Drawings for the Orozco Murals at Dartmouth College, Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29, 1980.
Men of Fire, Jose Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock, Friends-Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-June 17, 2012; Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, August 2-October 27, 2012.
Orozco: Pintura y Verdad, Instituto Cultural Cabanas, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, March 11-July 11, 2010; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico, September 21-February 27, 2011.
Orozco: Studies for the Murals at Dartmouth, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1962-1963; unconfirmed international itinerary, 1964-1965.
Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 20, 2016-January 8, 2017.
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, February 14-March 14, 2020; September 3, 2020-January 31, 2021.
Publication History
Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabana, 2010, ill. p.182.
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. 31, fig. 58; p. 69.
Provenance
Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.
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