Jose Clementé Orozco

Murals at Jiquilpan by J. C. Orozco, 8 Original Lithographs c1941 Eugene Fischgrund publisher AP1735

Regular price $800.00

Complete set, each measures 13" x 9 1/2". This is powerful and politically engaged work by one of the giants pf Mexican art. Comes with its original envelope.  After Orozco's murals on the suffering of the revolution, in the Gabino Ortiz Library in Jiquilpan.

José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego RiveraDavid Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, but less realistic and more fascinated by machines than Rivera. Mostly influenced by Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. Between 1922 and 1948, Orozco painted murals in Mexico CityOrizabaClaremont, CaliforniaNew York CityHanover, New HampshireGuadalajara, Jalisco, and Jiquilpan, Michoacán. His drawings and paintings are exhibited by the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City, and the Orozco Workshop-Museum in Guadalajara. Orozco was known for being a politically committed artist, and he promoted the political causes of peasants and workers.


Eugenio Fischgrund was a publisher in Mexico City c 1930-1960 of books and postcards; both showcased Mexican art and folklore, especially regional costumes. Fischgrund was a member of the Acción Democrática Internacional (International Democratic Action) and owner of the publishing house Editorial de Arte, located at Isabel La Catolica, 30-205, Mexico City. His postcards often were made in collaboration with the photographer Luis Márquez (1899–1978), and he also published postcards employing watercolors by Charles X. Carlson (1902–1991), F. Lugo, and Rafael Martínez Padilla (1878–1958).

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