Study for The Machine (Panel 12) for The Epic of American Civilization
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
about 1930-1934
Gouache on paper
Sheet: 20 × 17 1/4 in. (50.8 × 43.8 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
W.988.52.120
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, measurements in various places, lower right: 240; inscribed, on reverse, upper right: 1592, 1593 (crossed out), DC 21; inscribed, on reverse, lower right: 34, 61.1779.4
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
ARTH 16, LACS 48, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012
Exhibition History
Drawings for the Orozco Murals at Dartmouth College, Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29, 1980.
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 City, New York, 1962-1963; unconfirmed international itinerary, 1964-1965.
Publication History
Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabanas, 2010, ill. p. 186.
Provenance
Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.
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