Miseria (Misery)

Date1935

Maker Jose Clemente Orozco Mexican, 1883-1949

Label TextAlong with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco was a prominent figure in the Mexican muralist movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Orozco painted several important public mrals, the most famous of which are located in Mexico City, at Pomona College in California and at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Many of Orozco's mural compositions stemmed from his experience of the Mexican Revolution; he sometimes combined these themes with imagery drawn from ancient myths. In works like this lithograph, however, he focused on the plight of ordinary individuals.

Object number92.6

Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Freeing the Figure, December 2, 2009 - July 3, 2011 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "The Art of Protest" April 27, 2000 - January 21, 2001 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Arte Grafica, Mexican Prints and Photographs", July 14, 1994 - October 9, 1994

Credit LineGift of Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence

DimensionsSheet h.: 15 5/16 in. Sheet w.: 22 1/2 in. Image h.: 12 1/4 in. Image w.: 15 1/2 in.

MediumLithograph on paper