Mexican art played a leading role in influencing art in America, its effect and ideological and stylistic models can be seen both in Latin American painting as well as painting from the U.S. Orozco painted murals in Pomona College of California, at the New School for Social Research of New York and at the Library of Dartmouth College, between 1930 and 1934. Together with Rivera and Siqueiros he spread not only the technique of al fresco Muralism, but also the subject matter that was emphasized - sometimes more sometimes less - of a critical view of contemporary man's condition. Orozco's paintings of his formative years were particularly studied and admired by the abstract expressionist painters. The free expressions and suggestive strenght of the muralist made an impact on, for example, Jackson Pollock with qualities that are evident in this allegory, a bit nationalistic, from the Blaisten Collection. It refers back to the subject of emblematic beasts of the pre-Columbian cosmovision, but also points out the eloquent plasticity that Orozco achieved in his easel painting. This piece was on the cover of the magazine México en el arte, No. 1, of July, 1948, and was shown in New York at the Gallery of Modern Art.

Vide José Clemente Orozco. El artista en Nueva York (The artist in New York) (Letters to Jean Charlot, 1925-1929, and three unpublished texts). Prologue by Luis Cardoza y Aragón. Mexico, Editorial Siglo XXI, 1971.