Teatro de Variedades en Harlem (Vaudeville in Harlem)

José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949

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1928

Lithograph on wove Rives BFK paper

Image: 14 × 18 3/4 in. (35.6 × 47.7 cm)

Sheet: 15 15/16 × 22 13/16 in. (40.5 × 58 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City

2015.1.2

Printer

George C. Miller

Publisher

Weyhe Gallery, New York

Geography

Place Made: Mexico, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Initialed, in stone, lower right: J.C.O.; signed, in graphite, lower right: Jose Clemente Orozco; Watermark: RIVES

Course History

ARTH 72, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2015

ARTH 40.04, LACS 30.09, Mexicanidad: Constructing and Dismantling Mexican National Identity, Mary Coffey, Winter 2019

Latino Studies 44.01, Latino Roots and Transitions, Thamyris Almeida, Winter 2023

Spanish 80.26, USA in Lorca, Buñuel & Dalí, José del Pino, Spring 2024

Publication History

Mary Coffey, "Jose Clemente Orozco’s Dancing Indians" The Art Bulletin December 2020, vol. 201, no. 4: 90-120.

Mary K. Coffey, "Feeling Brown or Acting White? Spectacles of Racialized Performance and Pain in José Clemente Orozco's U.S.-based Prints," American Art, vol.37, no.2, Summer 2023, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, pp. 2-27, ill. p. 2-3, fig. 1.

Provenance

Weyhe Gallery, Mount Desert, Maine; sold to present collection, 2015.

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