The Epic of American Civilization: Hispano-America (Panel 14)
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1932-1934
Fresco
Overall: 120 × 119 in. (304.8 × 302.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College
P.934.13.16
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
Course History
ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022
ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022
ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022
ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022
ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Fall 2022
WRIT 2.06, Composition and Research I, Doug Moody, Fall 2022
Writing Program 5.08, Reviewing Ourselves: Critical Writing and Personal Values, Bill Craig, Winter 2023
Latino Studies 37.01, Migrant Lives and Labor, Doug Moody, Spring 2023
Geography 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Fall 2023
Writing 5.09, Reviewing Ourselves: Critical Writing and Personal Values, Bill Craig, Winter 2024
Writing 5.08, Reviewing Ourselves: Critical Writing and Personal Values, Bill Craig, Winter 2024
Geography 33.01, Geopolitics and Third World Development, Geneva Smith, Spring 2024
Tuck Facilitated Experience: Tuck School Conference Group, Summer 2023
Thayer Facilitated Experience: Climate Risk Management Group, Summer 2023
Exhibition History
Public Art, Reserve Corridor, Baker-Berry Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1934.
Publication History
Robert J. Blake, Alicia Ramos, Martha A. Marks, Al corriente: curso intermedio de espanol, 3rd ed., Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998, 428 p., ill.
Marcus B. Burke, Mexican Art Masterpieces, Southport: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1998, p. 86-87, ill. p. 87
Lois Fichner-Rathus, Understanding Art, fifth edition, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1998, ill. p. 23
James Diego Vigil, From Indians to Chicanos: The dynamics of Mexican-American Culture, 2nd edition, Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, Inc., 1998, ill. p. 129
Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages, 10th ed., Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c 1996, 1200 pp.1996
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins and Shifra M. Goldman, In the Spirit of Resistance: African-American Modernists and the Mexican Muralist School, New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1996, ill. p. 103
Johnson, Human Arrangements, 4/E, 1996
Hugh Honour & John Fleming, The Visual Arts, London: Calmann & King, 1995, ill. p. 755
Robert Pelfrey, Art and Mass Media, Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996, ill. p. 269
The Past and Future of Mexican Democracy and Development, The Montgomery Endowment, POSTER & BROCHURE for panel discussion 13 Carpenter Hall, May 24, 1995
Lois Fichner-Rathus, Understanding Art, fourth edition, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995, ill. p. 24
series Mexican Art Abroad, Mexico: Grupo Azabache, September 1994.
Ramyar Rossoukh (Class of 1996), Latino Resource Guide, Pegasus Press, 1994
Desmond Rochfort, Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Singapore: Laurence King Publishing, 1993, pp.99-119, ill. p. 107
Master Works of Mexican Art in the World, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Institute Matias Romero for Diplomatic Studies, 1993
Carlos Fuentes, The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World, Boston, New York, London: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992, ill. p. 349
Dartmouth Remembered, Bequests & Trusts, Dartmouth College
Paul Bohannan, We, the Alien: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc.,1992, ill. p. 209
Horst de la Croix, Richard G. Tansey, Diane Kirkpatrick, Gardner's Art Throught the Ages, ninth edition, Fort Worth (etc.): Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich College Publishers, 1991, pp. 1025-1026, ill. p. 1025.
Allan G. Johnson, Human Arrangements: An Introduction to Sociology, third edition, Fort Worth (etc.): Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1992, ill. p.293
Barbara Mujica, Texto y Vida, Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, College Division, 1992
Editors of Addison-Wesley, Building Bridges to Mathematics Activity Cards, Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1992
Lois Fichner-Rathus, Understanding Art, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1992
Benjamin Keen and Mark Wasserman, A History of Latin America, 3rd Edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991?
Grolier Enclyclopedia of Knowledge, Danbury: Grolier, Inc., 1991
Marta Rosso-O'Laughlin and Maria Gonzalez-Aguilar, Atando Cabos: Curso intermedio de espanol, 1st ed., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2001, ill. p. 216.
Editorial Clio, Orozco segun Orozco, (Video-in Spanish), Delagacion Coyoacan, Mexico: Editorial Clio, 1998, approx. 43 minutes.
The Getty Conservation Institute, Mural Painting and Conservation in the Americas [Symposium Brochure], Los Angeles, California: Getty Publications, May 16-17, 2003, 6 pp., inside.
Mary Cooper, New England as America: Jose Clemente Orozco's Anglo-America, The Collegiate Journal of Art, Spring 2008, Volume IV, 2008, pp. 82-96, ill. p. 86.
Silvia Spitta, Misplaced Objects, Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009, ill. p. 14, fig. 0.8.
Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabanas, 2010, pp.166-181, ill. p.174.
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.53; p.26, fig. 51.
Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 14, fig. 21
Elizabeth L. Langhorne, Jackson Pollock: Kunst als Sinnsuche: Abstraktion, All-Over, Action Painting, Wallerstein: Hawel-Verlag, 2013, 468 pp., ill. p. 41.
Barbara Haskell, Vida Americana, Mexican Muralist Remake American Art, 1925-1945, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2020, ill. pp. 36-37, fig. 17.
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. 87, fig. 2.24.
Provenance
Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1932.
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