Zapata

1. José Clemente Orozco; sold to Alma Reed/Delphic Studios, New York, by Oct. 1930 [exh. in American Federation of Art, Mexican Arts, 1930]; sold to Vincent Price, Hollywood, CA, in 1938 [letter from Price in file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1941.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, American Federation of Arts (organizer), Mexican Arts, cat. 412, exhibited at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 13–Nov. 9, 1930, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Nov. 25–Dec. 16, 1930, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Jan. 7–Feb. 4, 1931, Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 18–Mar. 11, 1931, Washington, Corcoran Gallery, Apr. 1–22, 1931, Milwaukee Art Institute, May 13–June 3, 1931, Louisville, J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, June 24–July 15, 1931, and San Antonio, Pan–American Round Table, Aug. 12–Sept. 2, 1931.
• New York, Delphic Studios and Alma Reed (organizer), Exhibition of Lithographs, Mural Studies, Photographs of Frescoes, Paintings, Drawings by José Clemente Orozco, cat. 23, exhibited at La Porte, Indiana, Civic Auditorium, Apr. 6–29, 1934.
• Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings by José Clemente Orozco, May 23–June 15, 1934, cat. 10.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Modern Works of Art; Fifth Anniversary Edition, Nov. 20, 1934–Jan. 20, 1935, cat. 121, ill.
• Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Institute, The 1935 International Exhibition of Paintings, Oct. 7–Dec. 8, 1935, cat. 241, pl. 30.
• New York, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, J. C. Orozco: Paintings and Drawings, Oct. 2–21, 1939, cat. 11.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art, Feb–Nov. 1940, no cat.
• Washington, DC, Pan American Union, Contemporary Art in Latin America, Apr. 1942, n.pag., ill.
• Rocky Mountain Council on Inter–American Affairs (organizer), Exhibition [Contemporary Latin American Painters], exhibited in Fort Collins, Colo., Colorado State University, Mar. 6–24, 1943, no cat. located.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, 1947, pp. 6, 32–33.
• Chicago, Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, José Clemente Orozco, 1883–1949, Apr. 2–30, 1951, cat. 6.
• Mexican government (organizer), exhibited in Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, under Art Mexicain du précolumbien a nos jours, May–July 1952, cat. 968, pl. 88, as Le Caudillo Zapata; Stockholm, Sweden, Liljevalchs Konsthall, under Mexikansk Konst från forntid till nutid, Oct. 1952, cat. 953, pl. 52, as Hövdingen Zapata; and London, Tate Gallery, under Exhibition of Mexican Art from Pre–Columbian Times to the Present Day, Mar. 4 to Apr. 26, 1953, cat. 968, pl. 55 (in supplement), as The Caudillo (Leader) Zapata.

• José Clemente Orozco, introduction by Alma Reed (Delphic Studios, 1932), ill. n.pag.
• "Modern Art: 1821–1940; Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art," Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, 7, 2–3 (May 1940), 11.
• Frederick A. Sweet, "The Leader, Zapata," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 35, 6 (November 1941), 90–91, ill. p. 89.
• Fernando Gamboa, José Clemente Orozco (Mexico: Ediciones de Arte, 1948), ill. p. 25.
• Justino Fernandez, "Orozco's Zapata." Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 45, 4, (November 15, 1951), 62–65.
• MacKinley Helm, Man of Fire: J. C. Orozco: An Interpretative Memoir (Boston Institute of Contemporary Art/Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953), ill. p. 149, pl. 15.
• Alma Reed, Orozco (Oxford University Press, 1956), 192–94, 198, 200, 201–02.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 346–47, ill. p. 472.
• José Clemente Orozco, An Autobiography, trans. by Robert C. Stephenson, intro. by John Palmer Leeper (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962), 139–140.
• John Hutton, "'If I am to die tomorrow'––Roots and Meanings of Orozco's Zapata Entering a Peasant's Hut," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, 1 (Fall 1984), 38–51, ill.
• Laurance P. Hurlburt, The Mexican Muralists in the United States (University of New Mexico Press, 1989), 42, 266 n. 85.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 65, ill.

The Flag

Art Institute of Chicago

Unemployed, Paris

Art Institute of Chicago

Zapatistas

Art Institute of Chicago

Demons Seated at a Table

Art Institute of Chicago

Ruined House

Art Institute of Chicago

Mexican Peasants Working

Art Institute of Chicago

The Grave Digger

Art Institute of Chicago

Requiem

Art Institute of Chicago

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