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"tombstone": "Loot, c. 1915. Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco (Mexican, 1883\u20131949). Graphite, pen and black ink, and black and gray wash; sheet: 34.9 x 19 cm (13 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride, 1943.538. \u00a9 Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico ",
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"title": "Loot",
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"id": 311433,
"title": "Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988",
"description": "Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).",
"opening_date": "1991-04-02T05:00:00"
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"id": 373919,
"title": "A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America",
"description": "A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-August 2, 2020).",
"opening_date": "2020-03-08T05:00:00"
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"description": "Exhibition of Lithographs, Mural Studies, Photographs of Frescoes, Paintings, Drawings by Jose Clemente Orozco. Civic Auditorium, La Porte, Indiana (April 6 - April 29, 1934).",
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"did_you_know": "Orozco later created prints from some of the drawings in the series to which this sheet belongs, but retitled them with more marketable Mexico in Revolution.",
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"description": "This drawing belongs to Horrors of the Revolution, a series in which Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco depicted violence during Mexico\u2019s ongoing political conflict. Taking a disillusioned view toward the uprising\u2014by then in its fifth year\u2014the artist wrote that he did not \u201ctrust revolutions or glorify them\u201d after witnessing events such as the one portrayed in this work. A caravan of figures, drawn in a caricatural style with exaggerated features, carry bundles of goods presumably taken from someone less fortunate.",
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"citation": "Reed, Alma. Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco. New York: Delphic Studios, 1932.",
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"citation": "Exhibition of Lithographs, Mural Studies, Photographs of Frescoes, Paintings, Drawings by Jose Clemente Orozco. Exh. Cat. La Porte, IN: Civic Auditorium, 1934.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 39",
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"citation": "Fern\u00e1ndez, Justino. Jose Clemente Orozco: Forma e Idea. Mexico: Libreria de Porrua Hnos. y Cia, 1942.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 170",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"'The Wounded Soldier' by Orozco.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 42, no. 4 (April 1955): 61-63.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 63",
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"citation": "Boyd, Bentley. \u201cExhibitions in 2020.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 1 (January/February 2020): 15-17.",
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"updated_at": "2026-07-25 11:42:17.777000"
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