The Grave Digger

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

José Clemente Orozco

Title

The Grave Digger

Place

Mexico (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1926–1928

Medium

Brush and black ink and gray wash on cream wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, at right edge, below center, in pen and black ink: "J. C. Orozco"; verso, lower left, in graphite: "4" and (partially erased): "SOLDIERS RESTING"; upper right, in graphite: "12-1/2 x 19-1/2 / 4-1/2 x 4 / 17 x 23-1/2"

Dimensions

32.5 × 50.3 cm (12 13/16 × 19 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2012.87

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City

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