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José Gómez-Sicre and José Clemente Orozco

José Gómez-Sicre and José Clemente Orozco
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Artist
José Gómez-Sicre, 6 Jul 1916 - 22 July 1991
Sitter
José Gómez-Sicre, 6 Jul 1916 - 22 July 1991
José Clemente Orozco, 23 Nov 1883 - 7 Sep 1949
Date
1941
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 11.5 × 16.8 cm (4 1/2 × 6 5/8")
Topic
Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses
Artwork\Painting
Art implements
Interior\Studio
Art implements\Easel
José Clemente Orozco: Visual Arts\Artist
José Clemente Orozco: Male
José Clemente Orozco: Visual Arts\Artist\Painter\Muralist
José Gómez-Sicre: Male
José Gómez-Sicre: Law and Crime\Lawyer
José Gómez-Sicre: Visual Arts\Art critic
José Gómez-Sicre: Literature\Writer\Art writer
Portrait
Place
México\Jalisco\Guadalajara
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Dr. Alejandro Anreus and Debra Blehart in memory of Juan. J. Mathé
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Object number
NPG.2014.51
Exhibition Label
José Gómez-Sicre 1916–1991
Born Matanzas, Cuba
José Clemente Orozco 1883–1949
Born Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico
José Gómez-Sicre is a crucial figure in creating a modern awareness in the United States of the richness and variety of Latin American art. Born in Cuba, he studied law and politics at University of Havana and art history at New York University and Columbia, making a career of disseminating Latin American art through museum exhibitions, diplomatic programs, and publications. From 1948 to 1976 he was chief of the Visual Arts Unit of the Pan-American Union, later renamed the Organization of American States. He was also founding director of the Art Museum of the Americas.
Gómez-Sicre took this photograph of himself with Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco in the painter’s studio in Guadalajara. A year earlier, in 1940, the Museum of Modern Art mounted the exhibition “Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art,” in which Orozco painted his portable mural Dive Bomber and Tank in front of the viewing public.
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Location
Currently not on view