El Buen Pastor
Artist
Luis Alfonso Jiménez Jr.
(American, 1940 - 2006)
Printer
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop
(American, founded 1979)
MediumKey stone (black) proof
DimensionsImage and sheet: 41 1/2 × 29 1/2 inches (105.41 × 74.93 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund and the Andrew Atterbury and Gwen Prentice Fund
Object number2024.9.67
Edition/State/ProofBlack and white key proof of key stone
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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. The 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.Provenance
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David Douglas Duncan
1958; printed 2013
2014.11.106
