Study of Figure Chopping the Cross for the Modern Migration of Spirit (Panel 18) for The Epic of American Civilization
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1932-1934
Graphite on tracing paper
Overall: 19 3/4 × 17 5/8 in. (50.2 × 44.8 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
D.988.52.207
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on reverse, upper left: 1244, DC #30; inscribed, on reverse, lower left: 35 @ D, 35@ D, 1344; inscribed, on reverse, lower right: 61.1788.68, Certificamo que este di ---- es origiani del Maestro Jose Clemente Orozco, Coleccion de Clemente Margarita V. de Orozco
Course History
ARTH 16, LACS 48, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012
ARTH 7, Orozco, Mary Coffey, Spring 2014
SPAN 7.2, Transforming Public Space: Mural Art in Mexico and the United States, Douglas Moody, Winter 2015
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
ARTH 40.04, LACS 30.09, Mexicanidad: Constructing and Dismantling Mexican National Identity, Mary Coffey, Winter 2019
HIST 87.01, Culture and Identity in Modern Mexico, Bryan Winston, Winter 2022
Exhibition History
Drawings for the Orozco Murals at Dartmouth College, Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29, 1980.
Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, March 9-May 19, 2002; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 8-December 15, 2002; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico, January 25-April 13, 2003.
Orozco: Studies for the Murals at Dartmouth, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1962-1963; unconfirmed international itinerary, 1964-1965.
Pinta La Revolucion: Arte Moderno Mexicano, 1910-1950; Museo del Palacio de Bellas Arts, Centro Historico, Mexico; February 1-April 30, 2017.
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, p. 92, fig. 90, listed p. 297.
Provenance
Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.
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