http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/browse?tags=2013.9&sort_field=added&sort_dir=a&output=atom <![CDATA[Blanton Museum of Art Collections]]> 2024-03-28T10:41:22-05:00 Omeka http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2921 <![CDATA[Cruzando El Rio Bravo [Border Crossing]]]> Border Crossing is an over-lifesize fiberglass sculpture by Texas native Luis Jiménez. In this monumental work, Jiménez depicts a Mexican man carrying a woman and infant on his back across the Rio Grande River. Border Crossing was conceived as a tribute to the artist’s grandfather, who, with his grandmother and father, illegally crossed the border between Mexico and Texas in 1924. As Jiménez later described: “I had wanted to make a piece that was dealing with the issue of the illegal alien….People talked about aliens as if they landed from outer space, as if they weren’t really people. I wanted to put a face on them: I wanted to humanize them.” Born in El Paso in 1940, Jiménez began studying art as an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin and received his Bachelor’s degree in 1964.]]> 2017-06-16T17:02:02-05:00

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Creator

Luis Jiménez

Title

Cruzando El Rio Bravo [Border Crossing]

Date Created

1989

Spatial Coverage

320.04 cm x 101.6 cm x 129.54 cm (126 in. x 40 in. x 51 in.)

Identifier

2013.9

Medium

Painted fiberglass

Description

Border Crossing is an over-lifesize fiberglass sculpture by Texas native Luis Jiménez. In this monumental work, Jiménez depicts a Mexican man carrying a woman and infant on his back across the Rio Grande River. Border Crossing was conceived as a tribute to the artist’s grandfather, who, with his grandmother and father, illegally crossed the border between Mexico and Texas in 1924. As Jiménez later described: “I had wanted to make a piece that was dealing with the issue of the illegal alien….People talked about aliens as if they landed from outer space, as if they weren’t really people. I wanted to put a face on them: I wanted to humanize them.” Born in El Paso in 1940, Jiménez began studying art as an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin and received his Bachelor’s degree in 1964.

Rights Holder

Gift of Jeanne and Michael Klein, 2013

Date

El Paso, TX, 1940 - 2006, Hondo, New Mexico

Type

sculpture

Has Version

http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/plugins/Dropbox/files/object_images/ART New/2013.9.zif

Requires

19869
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