Study of Hand for Hispano-America (Panel 14) for The Epic of American Civilization

José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949

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1932-1934

Graphite on tracing paper

Overall: 16 3/4 × 13 7/8 in. (42.5 × 35.2 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

Art © Estate of Jose Clemente Orozco / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

D.988.52.149

Geography

Place Made: Mexico, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, lower left: 1432; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, lower right: 61.1781.2; inscribed, in ink, on reverse: 28

Course History

WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014

LATS 41, Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts, Douglas Moody, Spring 2014

Exhibition History

In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-July 6, 2014.

Publication History

Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 26 , no. 8

Provenance

Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.

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