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(1883-1949): One of Mexico's three most renowned muralists (along with David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera), Orozco studies at Mexico City's San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts. He painted murals (mostly frescoes) between 1922 and 1949 in Mexico, New York City (at the New School for Social Research and the Museum of Modern Art), New Hampshire (at Dartmouth College), as well as at Pomona College in Claremont.

Prometheus

José Clemente Orozco
East San Gabriel Valley

This was one of the first Mexican murals painted in the United States.