Grief (Afliccion); The Peasant (El Campesino)
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1930
Lithograph on wove paper
Edition 63/100
Overall: 11 7/8 × 9 7/8 in. (30.2 × 25.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund
PR.985.40.2
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right: J. C. Orozco; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 63/100; lower center: Para el Sr. y la Sra Laurence Schmeckebier / N.Y. December 1932.
Course History
ARTH 16, LACS 48, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012
ARTH 7, Orozco, Mary Coffey, Spring 2014
ARTH 72, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2015
ARTH 40.04, LACS 30.09, Mexicanidad: Constructing and Dismantling Mexican National Identity, Mary Coffey, Winter 2019
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 109, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Amy Zarestky, Class of 2023, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 29 October - 23 December 2022
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.
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. 83, fig. 71, listed p.291.
Provenance
The artist; given to Mr. and Mrs. Laurence E. Schmeckebier, December 1932; bequeathed to the Schmeckebier family, 1984; sold to the present collection, 1985.
Catalogue Raisonne
C. Orozco, Catalogo completo de la obra grafica de Orozco, 1970, no. 14.
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