Teatro de Variedades en Harlem (Vaudeville in Harlem)
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
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
Research Area
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
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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