El Buen Pastor
Artist
Luis Alfonso Jiménez Jr.
(American, 1940 - 2006)
Publisher
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop
(American, founded 1979)
Date1999
MediumLithograph on Arches Cover white paper
DimensionsImage: 37 × 26 inches (93.98 × 66.04 cm)
Sheet: 41 1/2 × 29 1/2 inches (105.41 × 74.93 cm)
Sheet: 41 1/2 × 29 1/2 inches (105.41 × 74.93 cm)
Credit LineGift of C. Richard and Evelyn Belger
Object number2023.40.35
InscribedThe upper half of the image is red with writing: ESEQUIEL HERNANDEZ, EL BUEN PASTOR. AA TRAGIC CONSEQUENCE OF THIS COUNTRY’S INSANE AND RACIST BORDER POLICY WAS THE MURDER OF ESEQUIEL OF REDFORD, TEX. WHILE HE TENDED HIS GOATS. THE ASSASSINS WERE ABSOLVED SINCE THEY WERE ‘ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS’ AND HE FIT THE PROFILE OF A DRUG SMUGGLER, SO THEY SAID.
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DescriptionMan dressed in a short-sleeved shirt, jeans, and boots stands in the center of a desert landscape. He has a bright orange-yellow halo, holds up his proper right hand in blessing, and holds a baby goat in his bent proper left arm. Three goats at his feet. Behind him, yellow cactus with red flowers and a row of five soldiers in camouflage who shoot rifles at an unseen enemy, using bristly cactus to hide behind.ProvenanceC. Richard Belger and Evelyn Craft Belger, Kansas City, MO;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.
Copyright© Estate of Luis A. Jimenez, Jr. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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