José Clemente Orozco and Delphic Studios
Parade
1935
Scroll
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.”
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints," November 19, 2017 - March 11, 2017.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: (in plate) LLQ: 'SEPT. 1935'; LRQ(graphite signature): '-.C. Orozoco'; VERSO: UL(graphite): '27'; BRC (graphite): '#25'
Markings: none - none
