Sodbuster
1993.04.01
Lithograph
Paper
1993.04
PEP Permanent Collection Fund
Purchase
Permanent Collection Fund
Luis Alfonso Jiménez
1983
Signature
Front of canvas, lower left
L. Jiménez[?]
WrittenIn Artist's HandPencil
No signature can be discerned.
Previous Number
Back of frame, upper right
1993.04.01
WrittenPencil
Inscription
Back of frame, upper center
TOP
English
WrittenPencil
TagLabel
Attached to the frame, upper right
1993.04.01 drawing HARR C-14 (B)
English
WrittenPencil
Lithograph
Print, Planographic
Graphic Documents
Documentary Objects
Category 08: Communication Objects
31-5/8 in
45-1/8 in
YellowBlueBlackOrangeRedPurpleGreenWhiteMagenta
INTRO: Community Selections (2013)
Indelible/Indexical (2021)
Cultural/Historical Context
Luis Jimenez was born in El Paso, Texas in 1940. The son of an illegal Mexican immigrant, he created his art with the working class Chicano community in mind, a population he felt was his primary audience. Influenced by artists such as José Clemente Orozco, whose public murals are available to the masses that do not have access to museums or galleries, he began making large-scale figurative sculpture which focused primarily on culturally relevant, politicized themes of the Southwestern, Mexican-American working class. Favorite symbols are vaqueros, Indians, farmers, and rodeo queens.