THE ARTIST

JOSÉ CLEMENTE OROZCO was born in 1883 in Ciudad Guzmán, a provincial city in the Mexican coastal state of Jalisco. He was educated at the Agricultural School of San Jacinto, the National University, and the San Carlos Academy of Art. Architecture was his intended career, and for a time he was associated professionally with the architect Carlos Herrara, but after 1909 he applied his talents entirely to painting, drawing, and print making. As one of the leaders of the "Syndicate of Painters and Sculptors" he played a major role in the development and flowering of modern art in Mexico.

Mural painting was the major interest of this group and the fame of their achievement in this field has now spread throughout the entire world. Most critics today consider Orozco the most original and powerful mural painter of the group. Outstanding examples of his work are in Mexico City, in Guadalajara, at Pomona College in California, and here at Dartmouth.

Orozco died of a heart attack in 1949 at his home in Guadalajara. The house and studio are now a museum-workshop under the jurisdiction of the National Institute of Fine Arts.