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        "tombstone": "Study for the Mural \u201cAboriginal Races\u201d (for the National Preparatory School, Mexico City), 1926. Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco (Mexican, 1883\u20131949). Graphite; sheet: 32.2 x 31.8 cm (12 11/16 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride, 1945.253. \u00a9 Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico ",
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        "title": "Study for the Mural \u201cAboriginal Races\u201d (for the National Preparatory School, Mexico City)",
        "creation_date": "1926",
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        "culture": [
            "Mexico, 20th century"
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        "technique": "graphite",
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        "department": "Drawings",
        "collection": "DR - Mexican",
        "type": "Drawing",
        "measurements": "Sheet: 32.2 x 31.8 cm (12 11/16 x 12 1/2 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "sheet": {
                "height": 0.322,
                "height_inch": 12,
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico ",
        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "signed in pencil, at lower left: J.C. Orozco",
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        ],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 373919,
                    "title": "A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America",
                    "description": "<i>A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-August 2, 2020).",
                    "opening_date": "2020-03-08T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "<em>Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco Memorial Exhibition</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 11 - December 13, 1953).",
                    "opening_date": "1953-11-11T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA: Orozco Memorial Exhibition circulated from December 1, 1952-December, 1953.",
                    "opening_date": "1952-12-01T05:00:00Z"
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            ]
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Mrs. Malcom McBride, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [],
                "date": "?-1945",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
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                "description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "1945-",
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        "did_you_know": "The National Preparatory School murals were Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco's first major commission, shared with the artists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco created this drawing as a study for his first mural, which Mexico\u2019s minister of education commissioned as a series for the National Preparatory School, a prestigious secondary school in Mexico City. Over the course of two phases of work, between 1922 and 1926, Orozco covered the building\u2019s stairways and corridors with allegorical and political subjects from Mexican history. This drawing is one of several in which the artist worked out a composition depicting the country\u2019s earliest inhabitants.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79901975"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "<em>J.C. Orozco Memorial Exhibition</em>. Exh. Cat. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1953.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 144",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"'The Wounded Soldier' by Orozco.\" <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 42, no. 4 (April 1955): 61-63.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 63",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142031"
            }
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        "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride",
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                "description": "Jos\u00e9 Clemente Orozco (Mexican, 1883\u20131949)",
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                "birth_year": "1883",
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        "accession_date": "1945-12-06T00:00:00",
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        "alternate_titles": [
            "Study for the mural \"Ancient Races,\" National Preparatory School, Mexico City"
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        "updated_at": "2026-07-25 11:42:17.985000"
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