Tan Lejos de Dios: Tan Cercas de los Estados Unidos
Artist
Luis Alfonso Jiménez Jr.
(American, 1940 - 2006)
Publisher
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop
(American, founded 1979)
Date2001
MediumLithograph on Okawara paper
DimensionsImage: 25 × 50 inches (63.5 × 127 cm)
Sheet: 32 × 56 1/2 inches (81.28 × 143.51 cm)
Framed: 36 × 60 1/4 × 1 1/2 inches (91.44 × 153.04 × 3.81 cm)
Sheet: 32 × 56 1/2 inches (81.28 × 143.51 cm)
Framed: 36 × 60 1/4 × 1 1/2 inches (91.44 × 153.04 × 3.81 cm)
Credit LineGift of C. Richard and Evelyn Belger
Object number2023.40.39
Edition/State/Proof10/50
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionBlack and cream. Immigrants crossing the desert to come to the U.S. Hoops of barbed wire in the foreground, with cactus in the lower right and left corners. From the left, a car, a helicopter, the body of a child lying face down; a tall woman running with an anguished expression on her face, a fox and a reptile between her feet; a child; a woman carrying a toddler; a bare-chested man carrying a little girl on his shoulders; two Indians carrying bundles on their backs anchored by straps around their foreheads; a man facing left, holding a rifle in his proper left hand and a gun in the small of his back; a plane over his head; mountains in the background as well as three condors.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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