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Cabeza de mujer [Woman's Head]
Cabeza de mujer [Woman's Head]

Cabeza de mujer [Woman's Head]

Primary (Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico, 1883–Mexico City, Mexico, 1949)
NationalityMexican, North America
Date1929
MediumLithograph
Catalogue raisonnéHopkins 5; Marrozzini 17
DimensionsSheet: 15 7/8 × 11 1/2 in. (40.3 × 29.2 cm)
Image: 13 7/8 × 10 in. (35.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1986.85
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1986.85
On View
Not on view
Label Text
During his stay in the United States in the late 1920s, José Clemente Orozco used the medium of lithography to reproduce images from his murals in Mexico City. The prints served to familiarize the American audience with his work while also providing a stream of income. This somber image is based on Orozco’s 1926 mural "Trabajadores" ["Workers"] at the National Preparatory School (Colegio de San Ildelfonso), which presents a group of rural workers. The lithograph focuses on a detail, showing the face of a woman wearing a shawl or "rebozo," whose gentle form contrasts with her angular features.