The Epic of American Civilization: The Departure of Quetzalcoatl (Panel 7)

José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949

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1932-1934

Fresco

Overall: 120 × 205 in. (304.8 × 520.7 cm)

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

P.934.13.7

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

Anthony W. Lee, Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera, radical politics, and San Francisco's public murals, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, ill. p 178, fig. 6.8

Western American Literature, Quarterly Journal of the Western Literature Association, Summer 1998, Logan: Western American Literature and Utah University, 1998, ill. cover

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

Video series "Myths of Mankind", The Netherlands: Netherlands Public Television (AVRO), 1997.

Frederick Hartt, Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture (with contributions by Nan Rosenthal), 4th edition, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993, pp. 1011-1012, ill. p. 1011

Orozco's Masterpiece, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Special Issue, Dartmouth's Gifts to the World, April 1994, Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College, 1994, ill. p. 44

Desmond Rochfort, Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Singapore: Laurence King Publishing, 1993, pp.99-119, ill. p. 104

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

Gary H. Gossen, editor, South And Meso-American Native Spirituality: From the Cult of the Feathered Serpent to the Theology of Liberation; World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest,Volume 4, New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1993, ill. p. 7

Carlos Fuentes, The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World, Boston, New York, London: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992, ill. p. 314.

The Art of Latin America, California: Pomegranate Publications, 1991, 15 X 13 inch color reproduction in print portfolio comprised of eight works by Latin American artists.

The Art of Latin America, California: Pomegranate Publications, 1991, calendar for 1992

C. L. R. James, Mariners, Renegades & Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In, Hanover: University Press of New England, 2001, ill. cover.

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

Jacquelynn Baas, Orozco: Violent Visions in a Silent Space, Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, Spring 2008: University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies, 73 pp., ill. p. 36-37.

Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabanas, 2010, pp.166-181, ill. p.172.

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. 25, fig.47.

Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 2, fig. 2

Elizabeth L. Langhorne, Jackson Pollock: Kunst als Sinnsuche: Abstraktion, All-Over, Action Painting, Wallerstein: Hawel-Verlag, 2013, 468 pp., ill. p. 40.

Barbara Haskell, Vida Americana, Mexican Muralist Remake American Art, 1925-1945, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2020, ill. pp. 176-177, fig. 5.

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. 86, fig. 2.23

Provenance

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

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