José Clemente Orozco, Delphic Studios
Manifestation
1934
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José Clemente Orozco, Delphic Studios
Manifestation
1934
Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph, Sheet: 404 x 581 mm. (15 7/8 x 22 7/8 in.)
Image: 330 × 430 mm. (13 × 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Fenwick Keyser, Reisterstown, Maryland
Object Number
2000.362
Orozco made "Parade" not long after he returned to Mexico City, a time when his work was shifting toward an increasingly apocalyptic vision of the world. The massing of forward marching figures, whose bodies seem indistinguishable from one another, and the evocative but nonsensical signs suggest, as one scholar has written, “the dangerous menace of the mindless body politic.”
Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints
John H. Hopkins, Orozco: A Catalogue of His Graphic Work, Northern Arizona University Publications, #25, pp. 72-73.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: (in plate) LLQ: 'SEPT. 1935'; LRQ(graphite signature): '-.C. Orozoco'; VERSO: UL(graphite): '27'; BRC (graphite): '#25'
Markings: none - none