The Epic of American Civilization: Hispano-America (Panel 14)

José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949

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1932-1934

Fresco

Overall: 120 × 119 in. (304.8 × 302.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College

P.934.13.16

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

Exhibition History

Public Art, Reserve Corridor, Baker-Berry Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1934.

Publication History

Robert J. Blake, Alicia Ramos, Martha A. Marks, Al corriente: curso intermedio de espanol, 3rd ed., Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998, 428 p., ill.

Marcus B. Burke, Mexican Art Masterpieces, Southport: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1998, p. 86-87, ill. p. 87

Lois Fichner-Rathus, Understanding Art, fifth edition, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1998, ill. p. 23

James Diego Vigil, From Indians to Chicanos: The dynamics of Mexican-American Culture, 2nd edition, Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, Inc., 1998, ill. p. 129

Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages, 10th ed., Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c 1996, 1200 pp.1996

Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins and Shifra M. Goldman, In the Spirit of Resistance: African-American Modernists and the Mexican Muralist School, New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1996, ill. p. 103

Johnson, Human Arrangements, 4/E, 1996

Hugh Honour & John Fleming, The Visual Arts, London: Calmann & King, 1995, ill. p. 755

Robert Pelfrey, Art and Mass Media, Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996, ill. p. 269

The Past and Future of Mexican Democracy and Development, The Montgomery Endowment, POSTER & BROCHURE for panel discussion 13 Carpenter Hall, May 24, 1995

Lois Fichner-Rathus, Understanding Art, fourth edition, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995, ill. p. 24

series Mexican Art Abroad, Mexico: Grupo Azabache, September 1994.

Ramyar Rossoukh (Class of 1996), Latino Resource Guide, Pegasus Press, 1994

Desmond Rochfort, Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Singapore: Laurence King Publishing, 1993, pp.99-119, ill. p. 107

Master Works of Mexican Art in the World, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Institute Matias Romero for Diplomatic Studies, 1993

Carlos Fuentes, The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World, Boston, New York, London: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992, ill. p. 349

Dartmouth Remembered, Bequests & Trusts, Dartmouth College

Paul Bohannan, We, the Alien: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.,1992, ill. p. 209

Horst de la Croix, Richard G. Tansey, Diane Kirkpatrick, Gardner's Art Throught the Ages, ninth edition, Fort Worth (etc.): Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich College Publishers, 1991, pp. 1025-1026, ill. p. 1025.

Allan G. Johnson, Human Arrangements: An Introduction to Sociology, third edition, Fort Worth (etc.): Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1992, ill. p.293

Barbara Mujica, Texto y Vida, Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, College Division, 1992

Editors of Addison-Wesley, Building Bridges to Mathematics Activity Cards, Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1992

Lois Fichner-Rathus, Understanding Art, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1992

Benjamin Keen and Mark Wasserman, A History of Latin America, 3rd Edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991?

Grolier Enclyclopedia of Knowledge, Danbury: Grolier, Inc., 1991

Marta Rosso-O'Laughlin and Maria Gonzalez-Aguilar, Atando Cabos: Curso intermedio de espanol, 1st ed., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2001, ill. p. 216.

Editorial Clio, Orozco segun Orozco, (Video-in Spanish), Delagacion Coyoacan, Mexico: Editorial Clio, 1998, approx. 43 minutes.

The Getty Conservation Institute, Mural Painting and Conservation in the Americas [Symposium Brochure], Los Angeles, California: Getty Publications, May 16-17, 2003, 6 pp., inside.

Mary Cooper, New England as America: Jose Clemente Orozco's Anglo-America, The Collegiate Journal of Art, Spring 2008, Volume IV, 2008, pp. 82-96, ill. p. 86.

Silvia Spitta, Misplaced Objects, Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009, ill. p. 14, fig. 0.8.

Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabanas, 2010, pp.166-181, ill. p.174.

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.53; p.26, fig. 51.

Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 14, fig. 21

Elizabeth L. Langhorne, Jackson Pollock: Kunst als Sinnsuche: Abstraktion, All-Over, Action Painting, Wallerstein: Hawel-Verlag, 2013, 468 pp., ill. p. 41.

Barbara Haskell, Vida Americana, Mexican Muralist Remake American Art, 1925-1945, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2020, ill. pp. 36-37, fig. 17.

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.

Provenance

Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1932.

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