Exhibition research for Detroit Institute of Arts exhibition of prints, drawings, and photographs, tentatively scheduled for 2019.

Contact: Clare Rogan, Curator of Prints & Drawings, crogan@dia.org    

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Marching Women

Accession Number
1948/1.72

Title
Marching Women

Artist(s)
José Orozco

Object Creation Date
1883-1933

Medium & Support
lithograph on paper

Dimensions
15 7/8 in x 22 3/4 in (40.32 cm x 57.78 cm);22 1/8 in x 28 1/8 in (56.2 cm x 71.44 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Subject matter
Designed at the close of the Mexican Revolution, as the modern state of Mexico was established (1929). This design is reminiscent of his "Mexico in Revolution" drawings from earlier in the decade. Though there are soldiers represented here, the effects of war is depicted through the lives of the women who are left behind. The two figures on the left are left distressed, while the central figure, very literally, carries a heavy burden. 

Physical Description
Figures in front of a large planar wall. On the left, there is one seated female in a white cloack and one standing female in a black cloack. Both of these women's faces are visible. At the center, there is a women in a black cloack carrying two large sacs and walking towards the right. To her right, there are two man walking away in dark costumes, holding rifles and wearing white, wide-brimmed hat. On the far right, there is a women walking away and dressed in white with two hair-braids visible. 

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
groups
men (male humans)
modern and contemporary art
revolutions
rifles (long guns)
soldiers
sombreros (hats)
walls
women
women (female humans)

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