José Clemente Orozco
The Committee on Art
1931
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José Clemente Orozco
The Committee on Art
1931
Physical Qualities
Pen and brush and black ink over graphite, Sheet: 356 x 540 mm. (14 x 21 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number
1933.61.2
Orozco took up caricature during his early art studies at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City. By the 1910s, he was working as a political cartoonist for Mexican newspapers and journals. Over the course of his career, Orozco’s gift for political and social satire continued to inform his work in a multitude of ways. Here Orozco uses an economy of means to draw a gathering of men and women who all exude self-importance, epitomized by the woman in the hat at right who stares imperiously out at the viewer.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1933; Blanche Adler; bought from the Delphic Studios after being on exhibition at the Museum [probably Member's Room]
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover and Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; 'José Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934;' San Diego Museum of Art, March 8, 2002 - May 19, 2002; The Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, June 8, 2002 - December 15, 2002.
BMA, Caricatures, Cartoons and Humorous Drawings, April 1934.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints," November 19, 2017 - March 11, 2017.
BMA, Caricatures, Cartoons and Humorous Drawings, April 1934.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Crossing Borders: Mexican Modernist Prints," November 19, 2017 - March 11, 2017.
"José Clemente Orozco." New York: Delphic Studios, 1932, repr. (unpaginated, second to last page)
Hilton, Ronald, ed. "Handbook of Hispanic Source Materials and Research Organizations in the United States." Toronto, Canada: The University of Toronto Press, 1942, p. 186.
Reed, Alma. "Orozco." New York: Oxford University Press, 1956, pp. 49-50.
Renato González Mello and Diane Miliotes, eds. "José Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934." (Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College and New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002) p. 77 illustrated fig. 60, and p. 289
Inscribed: In black ink, at lower right: "J. C. Orozco"
Markings: CM: verso: at center and bottom: B.A. (Blanche Adler)
