Detail of Mural "Gods of the Modern World," Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Photographer credit: Rick Tejada-Flores
Mural "Carnival of the Ideologies," Palacio de Gobierno, Guadalajara, Mexico. Photographer credit: Najib Joe Hakim
Panoramic View of Hospicio Cabañas ceiling, the "Sistine Chapel of the Americas." Photographer credit: Najib Joe Hakim
Mural "Modern Migration of the Spirit," Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Photographer credit: Rick Tejada-Flores
Mural "Struggle in the Orient," New School University, New York. Photographer credit: Rick Tejada-Flores
Mural "Table of Universal Brotherhood," New School University, New York. Photographer credit: Rick Tejada-Flores
Detail "Table of Universal Brotherhood," New School University, New York. Photographer credit: Rick Tejada-Flores
Detail "Table of Universal Brotherhood," New School University, New York. Photographer credit: Rick Tejada-Flores
Drawing "Hands" by José Clemente Orozco. Courtesy Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Mural "Man of Fire," Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico. Photographer credit: Najib Joe Hakim
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Orozco’s paintings were destroyed by U.S. customs agents
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