The Epic of American Civilization: Migration (Panel 1)
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1932-1934
Fresco
Overall: 126 1/2 × 105 in. (321.3 × 266.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College
P.934.13.1
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
On view
Inscriptions
Signed, east wall (Panel 11): J. C. Orozco / Febrero 13, 1934
Exhibition History
Public Art, Reserve Corridor, Baker-Berry Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1934.
Publication History
series Mexican Art Abroad, Mexico: Grupo Azabache, September 1994.
Katharine Baetjer, Lisa Mintz Messinger, Nan Rosenthal, The Jackson Pollock Sketchbooks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, ill. p. 65.
Class of 1994, Writing of Seniors, Voces - for class of 1998, 1994
Master Works of Mexican Art in the World, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Institute Matias Romero for Diplomatic Studies, 1993.
Editorial Clio, Orozco segun Orozco, (Video-in Spanish), Delagacion Coyoacan, Mexico: Editorial Clio, 1998, approx. 43 minutes.
Annette Carlozzi, "Might Could Be" in Terry Adkins Towering Steep, Hanover: Studio Art Exhibition Program, 2003, p.p. 8-10, ill. p. 8.
Nichola Tucker, The Epic of American Civilization as Performative Epic: Student Viewers as Heroes and the Re-Enactment of History, The Collegiate Journal of Art, Spring 2008, Volume IV, 2008, pp. 97-110, ill. p. 99, fig. 2.
Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabanas, 2010, pp.166-181, ill. p.170.
Mary K. Coffey, Sharon Lorenzo, Lisa Mintz Messinger, Stephen Polcari, Men of Fire, Jose Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2012, ill. p.52; p.20, fig.41.
Warren Carter, ed., Art after Empire: From Colonialism to Globalisation, Manchester: Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, 2018, pp. 84-89, ill. p. 86, fig. 2.23
Provenance
Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1932.
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