Study for Ancient Human Sacrifice (Panel 3) for The Epic of American Civilization

José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949

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about 1930-1934

Watercolor on paper

Overall: 17 7/8 × 14 1/2 in. (45.4 × 36.8 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.988.52.24

Geography

Place Made: Mexico, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower right: 254; inscribed, on reverse, upper right: 1582 (crossed out), 1581; inscribed, on reverse, lower left: 1582 (crossed out), 1581; inscribed, on reverse, lower right: 61.1772.18

Course History

SPAN 7.05, Transforming Public Space: Mural Art in Mexico and the United States, Douglas Moody, Winter 2019

Exhibition History

Modernism: The Making of the 20th Century Vision, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 22-July 8, 1990.

Provenance

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

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