Transfer drawing of Head with Open Jaw for The Departure of Quetzalcoatl (Panel 7) for The Epic of American Civilization
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1932-1934
Graphite on tracing paper
Sheet: 13 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (34.3 × 29.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: 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.988.52.77
Geography/Culture
North America, Mexico
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Classification
Drawing
Not on view
Inscription
Inscribed, upper right: 24", 9"; inscribed, on reverse, lower left: 1349; inscribed, on reverse, lower right: 1349, 5, DC 15, 61.1776.2, 15
Exhibition History
Orozco: Studies for the Murals at Dartmouth, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1962-1963; unconfirmed international itinerary, 1964-1965.
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.
Drawings for the Orozco Murals at Dartmouth College, Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 29, 1980.
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. 91, fig.88, listed p. 295.
Provenance
Artist; by descent to the Orozco Family, about 1949; purchased by the present collection, 1988.
Old Number
61.1776.2
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