Resources for further study and action

TO START

Visit the website of the PBS series American Masters, the public television broadcaster of Orozco: Man of Fire.

Download a PDF version of the film’s discussion guide, and other educational resources.

OROZCO AND HIS ART

Photographer Bob Schalkwijk has the world’s most comprehensive photo archive of Mexican murals, including all of Orozco’s murals in Mexico.

https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/explore/collection/featured-collections/orozcos-epic
Dartmouth College provides information about Orozco’s Epic of American Civilization mural cycle (1932-34) in the Baker Library’s Orozco Room, a designated national historic landmark. The site includes a 3-D digital tour of the mural, a downloadable brochure, and a video presentation on the murals’ relevance today.

http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/resources/Murals
The Getty Research Center Arts has on-line information about Orozco’s art and other Mexican murals.

The Pomona College website source for information about Prometheus, Orozco’s first mural in the United States.

MURAL PAINTING IN THE AMERICAS AND CHICANO/LATINO ART

New Deal/WPA Art Project is a good “clearinghouse” site of links to information about New Deal Murals.

http://members.aol.com/FVOC/
An archive of art reviews by Francis V. O’Connor Ph.D., including information about the 1930s WPA Federal Art Project.

UC Santa Barbara’s California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives features Calisphere, an online collection of Latino/Chicano art.

MURAL PAINTING AND ARTS EDUCATION

The Chicago Public Art Group creates public artwork, trains artists in mural painting, and teaches children creative skills. View their comprehensive guide to the mural-making process.

The Social and Public Art Resource Center is a Los Angeles community arts organization that creates public art projects, maintains a digital mural lab and archives and provides educational programs.

Precita Eyes Muralists is a San Francisco community arts organization that creates mural projects and offers mural painting and art classes to children, youth and adults.

The Kennedy Center provides educational materials that meet the National Standards For Arts Education, including the lesson plan, Five Artists of the Mexican Revolution.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Becker, Heather. Art for the People: The Rediscovery and Preservation of Progressive and WPA-Era Murals in the Chicago Public Schools, 1904-1943. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2002

Brenner, Anita. The Wind that Swept Mexico: The History of the Mexican Revolution 1910-1942. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1985

Chalfant, Henry, and Jim Prigoff. Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride: The History of African American Murals in the United States. Pomegranate Press, Beverly Hills, 2000

Coffey, Mary K. Orozco’s American Epic: Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race. Duke University Press, Durham 2020

Charlot, Jean. An Artist on Art, Collected Essays of Jean Charlot. The University Press of Hawaii, 1972

Charlot, Jean. The Mexican Mural Renaissance. Hacker Art Books, New York, 1962

Cockroft, Eva Sperling and Holly Barnet-Sanchez. Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals. SPARC/University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1990

Cockroft, Eva, John Weber and Jim Cockroft, Toward a People’s Art, The Contemporary Mural Movement. E.P. Dutton And Co., New York, 1977

Delpar, Helen. The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa and London, 1992

Frank, Patrick. Posada’s Broadsheets-Mexican Popular Imagery 1890-1910. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1998

Glusker, Susannah Joel. Anita Brenner-A Mind of Her Own. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1998

Haskell, Barbara et al. Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2020.

Helm, MacKinley. Man of Fire: J.C. Orozco, an interpretive memoir. Greenwood Press, Westport, 1971

Helm, MacKinley. Mexican Painters. Dover Publications, New York, 1989

Harth, Marjorie, editor. José Clemente Orozco: Prometheus. Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, 2001

Hemingway, Andrew. American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2002

Hood Museum of Art, Renato González Mello and Diane Miliotes, editors. José Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934. WW Norton & Co, New York/London, 2002

Hurlburt, Laurance P. The Mexican Muralists in the United States. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1989

Jacoby, Annice. Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo. Abrams, New York, 2009

LeFalle-Collins, Lizetta and Goldman, Shifra M. In the Spirit of Resistance: African-American Modernists and the Mexican Muralist School. American Federation of Arts, New York, 1996

Oles, James. South of the Border: Mexico in the American Imagination 1914-1947. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London, 1993

Orozco, José Clemente. The Artist in New York, Letters to Jean Charlot and Unpublished Writings (1925-1929). University of Texas Press, Austin, 1974

Orozco, José Clemente. An Autobiography. Dover Publications, New York, 2001

Orozco Valladares, Clemente. José Clemente Orozco: Graphic Work, University of Texas Press, Austin 2004

Paz, Octavio. Essays on Mexican Art. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1987

Reed, Alma. Orozco. Oxford University Press, New York, 1956

Reed, Alma. The Mexican Muralists. Crown Publishers, New York, 1960

Rochfort, Desmond. Mexican Muralists. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1998

Stein, Philip. Siqueiros, His Life and Works. International Publishers, New York, 1994