On the walls of Dartmouth College's Baker Library, José Clemente Orozco's brutally expressive and bitterly pessimistic mural recounts the history of the Western Hemisphere and suggests that the ...

The life of Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco is one of the great stories of the modern era, filled with adversity and triumph.

Orozco painted some of his lesser-known but most politically charged fresco murals along the arched corridors of the colonial-era college, founded by Jesuits in 1588, just 60 years after the fall ...

Beyond geo-politics and national identity, Orozco spent 10 years in the United States, where he painted four major murals as well as hundreds of easel paintings and graphic works.

Orozco’s Epic Murals, the Art of Flowers, and Cookbooks Through the Ages, All at Dartmouth José Clemente Orozco, The Epic of American Civilization: Migration (Panel 1), 1932–1934, fresco.

Jose Clemente Orozco is a famous social realist muralist whose works can be found in Mexico City, and the United States. Here is a profile of his bold works.

In 1930, the Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco finished his mural Prometheus at Pomona College in Southern California. Orozco had by then emerged as one of 20th-century art’s most ...

Seventy years ago, the Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco--on his way to becoming one of the most famous muralists in the world--made an important stop at Pomona College. He painted a fresco ...

On the walls of Dartmouth College's Baker Library, José Clemente Orozco's brutally expressive and bitterly pessimistic mural recounts the history of the Western Hemisphere and suggests that the ...