Study of Hand for Modern Migration of the Spirit (Panel 18) for The Epic of American Civilization
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
about 1930-1934
Graphite on tracing paper
Overall: 13 13/16 × 16 9/16 in. (35.1 × 42 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
D.988.52.209
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on reverse, right measurement: 24 1/2"; inscribed, on reverse, lower right: 61.1784.2, 72; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, upper left: 1477
Course History
ARTH 16, LACS 48, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012
Theater 10.34, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 66.25, Disability Arts & Activism, Julia Havard, Spring 2023
Provenance
Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.
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