JOSE CLEMENTE OROSCO


Biographical Information

One of Mexico's three most renowned muralists (along with David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera), Orozco (1883-1949) studied at Mexico City's San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts. He painted murals (mostly al fresco) between 1922 and 1949 in Mexico, New York City (at the New School for Social Research and the Museum of Modern Art), New Hampshire (at Dartmouth College), as well as at Pomona College in southern California.


Mural Credits

Prometheus (photo)


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