The Epic of American Civilization: Snake and Spears (Panel 2)
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1932-1934
Fresco
Height: 20 1/2 in. (52.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College
P.934.13.2
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
series Mexican Art Abroad, Mexico: Grupo Azabache, September 1994.
Master Works of Mexican Art in the World, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Institute Matias Romero for Diplomatic Studies, 1993.
Stephen Polcari, Orozco and Pollock: Epic Transfigurations, American Art, Summer, 1992, Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, pp. 37-57, ill. p. 44.
Stephen Polcari, Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991, ill. p. 237.
Editorial Clio, Orozco segun Orozco, (Video-in Spanish), Delagacion Coyoacan, Mexico: Editorial Clio, 1998, approx. 43 minutes.
Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabanas, 2010, pp.166-181, ill. pp.170-171.
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. 12, fig. 28.
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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