  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
  
  
  
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  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
  
  
  
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  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 30 × 37 inches (76.2 × 94 cm)
  Framed: 35 3/4 × 42 1/2 × 3 1/4 inches (90.8 × 108 × 8.3 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  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
  
  
  Copyright
  Restricted
