About the Artwork
El Buen Pastor
1999
Luis Jiménez
1940-2006
American
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Lithograph printed in color on off-white wove paper
Image: 37 3/8 × 26 3/8 inches (94.9 × 67 cm) Sheet: 41 3/4 × 29 3/4 inches (106 × 75.6 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Museum Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund
2011.88
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: [copyright mark] Luis Jimenez '99
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 50/62 Inscribed, lower left, verso, above the drystamp: LJ-98-4 Inscribed, across the upper image and as part of it: ESQUIEL HERNANDEZ "EL BUEN PASTOR" | A TRAGIC CONSEQUENCE OF THIS COUNTRY'S | INSANE AND RACIST BORDER POLICY | WAS THE MURDER OF ESEQUIEL OF RED- | FORD, TEX. WHILE HE TENDED HIS GOATS. | THE ASSA-SINS WERE ABSOLVED | SINCE THEY WERE ONLY, "FOLLOWING ORD- | ERS," AND HE FIT THE PROFILE OF A | DRUG SMU-GGLER," SO THEY SAID.
Watermark, Lawrence Lithography Workshop, lower right: ARCHES | FRANCE
Provenance
(The Lawrence Lithography Workshop, Kansas City, Missouri, USA);2011-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Luis Jiménez, El Buen Pastor, 1999, lithograph printed in color on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund, 2011.88.
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