Study for The Departure of Quetzalcoatl (Panel 7) for The Epic of American Civilization

José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949

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about 1932-1934

Graphite on paper

Overall: 11 7/8 × 22 1/4 in. (30.2 × 56.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935, and Robert S. Weil, Class of 1940, in honor of Churchill P. Lathrop

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

D.978.19

Geography

Place Made: Mexico, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Course History

WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014

LATS 41, Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts, Douglas Moody, Spring 2014

Exhibition History

In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-July 6, 2014.

Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, March 9-May 19, 2002; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 8-December 15, 2002; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico, January 25-April 13, 2003.

Publication History

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc, New York, Sale 4105, lot 42A, April 5, 1978.

Renato Gonzalez Mello and Diane Miliotes, Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College (Copublished by W.W. Norton and Company), 2002, p. 295, fig. 309.

Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 28, no. 6

Provenance

William H. Duke, 1950's; Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, Sale 4105, lot 42A, April 5, 1978; purchased by Adolph Weil, Jr. and Robert S. Weil, 1978; given to present collection, 1978.

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