1. [Mexican Social Realist Muralist, 1883-1949] Presentación Jeanine Carr

2. Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919) became a symbol of the Mexican Revolution after his assassination. The charismatic Zapata crusaded to return to Mexico’s peasants the enormous holdings of wealthy landowners. José Clemente Orozco, a leader of the Mexican mural movement during the 1920s and 1930s, presented Zapata as a ghostlike figure who appears in the open door of a peasant hut. He is framed by a patch of bright sky and the intersecting diagonals of outstretched arms and pointed sombreros. Mexican RevolutionMexico Zapata, 1930

3. Wounded Soldier 1930

4. José Clemente Orozco - Autorretrato - Diciembre 1932

5. Man Released from the Mechanistic to the Creative Life

6. Orozco at Darthmouth José Clemente Orozco came to Dartmouth in May, 1932 as a visiting lecturer in the department of art. He was commissioned to teach the technique of fresco painting and did this by painting a small fresco in the reserve room corridor, entitled During his visit, Orozco realized that the blank walls of the reserve book room would enable him to paint the "greatest work of his career", an epic of civilization on the American continent. The room was painted with a series of twenty four panels depicting American civilization from the Aztecs to the arrival of the white man.

7. "Échate la otra" (Mexican Pulquería)