El Buen Pastor (The Good Shepherd)

Luis Alfonso Jimenez, artist

1940–2006

Lawrence Lithography Workshop, publisher

active 1998–2001

El Buen Pastor (The Good Shepherd), 1999

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: color lithograph; wove paper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 940 x 680 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 1055 x 752 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 37 x 26 3/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 41 9/16 x 29 5/8 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 46 1/4 x 33 1/4 x 1 in
Weight (Weight): 14 lbs

Credit line: Lawrence Lithography Workshop Archive

Accession number: 1999.0285

Not on display

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Brosseau Center for Learning: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Access

In May 1997, 18-year-old Esequiel Hernandez Jr. was herding his family’s goats outside of Redford, Texas. Suddenly an antidrug surveillance team ambushed him from the brush, shooting and killing him because they thought he could be a drug smuggler. This print by Luis Alfonso Jimenez honors Hernandez and brings attention to the racial profiling and violence that Latinx residents experience at the United States–Mexico border.

Archive Label 2003:
Luis Jiménez grew up in El Paso, Texas, where he worked with his father who made neon signs. Jiménez’s use of bold colors, modern materials, and subjects from popular culture is inspired by his ties to the American Southwest and Mexico and his father’s profession. His heroic public art celebrates the lives of ordinary individuals, revealing his concerns for working-class people and those who have suffered from discrimination.