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Scarce signed copy by Orozco of this limited-edition compilation of the renowned Mexican painter\'s and muralist\'s work.Condition: Good. Without the scarce glassine dust jacket and slipcase.BOOK INFOSigned by Orozco on the half-title in blue ink.Published by Delphic Studios in New York City in 1932. First edition, first printing. Limited edition #1026 (signed by publisher on rear pastedown). In its original black cloth covered boards with paper pastedown label on front cover. Quarto, 11.25\" x 8.75\". Collated and complete: unpaginated (272 pp.) with hundreds of black and white photographic images of the artist\'s work.CONDITION REPORTThe book is in Good collectible condition.Exterior and binding: spine lean, covers a bit loose, a bit shaken with strained binding in places. Cover cloth faded and worn. Chips to cloth at spine tips. Fraying along edges and joints in places. Crack through front cover label. Bumped and heavily worn corners. Soiling to cloth in places. Top edge darkened, per usual.Interior: Toned endpapers. Lightly toned pages. Plate images in excellent condition. Quarter sized water dampening stain to foot of fore-edge of text block. 1/2\" tear to head of 27-28 pp. No bookplates, writing or foxing.ABOUT THE ARTISTJosé Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican caricaturist and painter, who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, but less realistic and more fascinated by machines than Rivera. Mostly influenced by Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. Between 1922 and 1948, Orozco painted murals in Mexico City; Orizaba; Claremont, California; New York City; Hanover, New Hampshire; Guadalajara, Jalisco; and Jiquilpan, Michoacán.With Diego Rivera, he was a leader of the artist movement known as Mexican Muralism. An important distinction he had from Rivera was his darker view of the Mexican Revolution. While Rivera was a bold, optimistic figure, touting the glory of the revolution, Orozco was less comfortable with the bloody toll the social movement was taking. Orozco is known as one of the Big Three muralists along with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. All three artists, as well as the painter Rufino Tamayo, experimented with fresco on large walls, and elevated the art of the mural.
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