Mexican Pueblo

1932

José Clemente Orozco Mexican, 1883-1949

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Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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About the Artwork

Three women kneel on the ground to rest surrounded by the twisting fronds of large agave plants. Two cover their heads from the sun with a type of shawl called a rebozo, while a small child naps in the foreground.

José Clemente Orozco painted this abstracted view of rural Mexican life while he was living in New York City. Along with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Orozco helped define a new language for modern art in Mexico through grand public murals. Orozco had moved to the United States in the late 1920s when political changes in Mexico reduced government patronage for murals. His work in this period included a small group of mural commissions, politically charged paintings of daily life in New York during the Great Depression, and romanticized depictions of rural Mexican life such as Mexican Pueblo.

Title Mexican Pueblo

Artwork Date 1932

Artist José Clemente Orozco

Life Dates 1883-1949

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Mexican

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 30 × 37 inches (76.2 × 94 cm) Framed: 35 3/4 × 42 1/2 inches (90.8 × 108 cm)

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Department American Art before 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 42.103

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Signed Signed, lower right: J.C.Orozco

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1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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