Miseria (Misery)

Jose Clemente Orozco

1935

Lithograph on paper

Seattle Art Museum

Along with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco was a prominent figure in the Mexican muralist movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Orozco painted several important public mrals, the most famous of which are located in Mexico City, at Pomona College in California and at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Many of Orozco's mural compositions stemmed from his experience of the Mexican Revolution; he sometimes combined these themes with imagery drawn from ancient myths. In works like this lithograph, however, he focused on the plight of ordinary individuals. Gift of Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Obje