In 1930, the Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco finished his mural Prometheus at Pomona College in Southern California. Orozco had by then emerged as one of 20th-century art’s most enthusiastic ...

n the spring of 1930, the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco was invited by Pomona College, in Claremont, Calif., to paint a mural on the north wall of the recently completed men’s refectory known as ...