DETAILS
- Artist
- José Clemente Orozco
- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- Image: 32.2 × 45.2 cm (12 11/16 × 17 13/16 in.); Sheet: 39.4 × 52.6 cm (15 9/16 × 20 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- Mexico
- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph R. Shapiro
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José Clemente Orozco
José Clemente Orozco, one of Mexico's "Big Three" muralists, powerfully depicted human suffering and the complexities of the Mexican Revolution.
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