Study of a hand for The Epic of American Civilization
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1932-1934
Gouache on cream paper
Overall: 19 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (49.5 × 24.8 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.988.52.268
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, lower right: 245; inscribed, in blue ink, on reverse, lower right: authentication by Margarita Orozco; inscribed, in graphite, onn reverse, lower left: 1595m (m is in blue ink), 1596 (crossed out)
Course History
ARTH 7, Orozco, Mary Coffey, Spring 2014
ARTH 72, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2015
Provenance
Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.
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