Study for Modern Industrial Man (central panel, 2 of 3, Panel 20) for The Epic of American Civilization

José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949

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1932-1934

Graphite on tracing paper

Sheet: 10 1/2 × 28 3/4 in. (26.7 × 73 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.988.52.237

Geography

Place Made: Mexico, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, on reverse, lower right: Certificamos que este dil--- es originial del Maestro Jose Clemente Orozco y pertenece a lu serie de Dartmouth. Coleccion de Clemente Margarita V. De Orozco C. Orozco, 1252, DC 39, 61.1785.2; inscribed, on reverse, lower left: 43 DC

Course History

SPAN 7.02, Mural Art in Mexico and U.S, Douglas Moody, Spring 2020

SPAN 7.02, Mural Art in Mexico, Douglas Moody, Spring 2021

SPAN 7.02, Mural Art in Mexico, Douglas Moody, Spring 2021

English 52.20/African and African American Studies 82.11, Reading Between the Color Lines in 19th Century American Literature, Michael Chaney, Winter 2024

Exhibition History

Drawings for the Orozco Murals at Dartmouth College, Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29, 1980.

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.

Orozco: Pintura y Verdad, Instituto Cultural Cabanas, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, March 11-July 11, 2010; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico, September 21-February 27, 2011.

Orozco: Studies for the Murals at Dartmouth, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1962-1963; unconfirmed international itinerary, 1964-1965.

Publication History

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. 185, fig. 232, listed p. 297.

Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabanas, 2010, pp.188-189, ill. p.189.

Provenance

Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.

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