Orozco at Dartmouth Welcome to the web pages for the Orozco Frescoes at Dartmouth College. These frescoes are located in the reserve room in the basement of the Baker Library and are on permanent exhibit at the College.
Visitors can view the frescoes whenever the reserve room is open .
He was commissioned to teach the technique of fresco painting and did this by painting a small fresco in the reserve room corridor, entitled Man Released from the Mechanistic to the Creative Life . The room was painted with a series of twenty four panels depicting American civilization from the Aztecs to the arrival of the white man. An interpretation of his work was published by Dartmouth College in 1934 upon completion of the mural, and republished in 1962. The Art Librarian of Dartmouth College, Barbara Reed, has supplied a short bibliography on Orozco. Hood Museum, Hanover, NH 03755-3591.