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Born in El Paso, TX in 1940 to Mexican immigrants, Luis Jimenez became known throughout the world for populist art and public commissions that fused together "Chicano" and Anglo-American cultures. Rudolfo Anaya, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, commented: “The kind of medium he used shocked the art world at first. It was first called outlandish and garish, but it spoke not only to Hispanics but to the world. In the coming years there will be a school of Luis Jimenez art.”
Luis Jimenez died at age 65 in June 2006 in his studio in rural Hondo, NM from injuries sustained when one of the pieces from a thirty-two-foot-high sculpture being moved from his studio came loose and pinned him against a steel support. Commissioned by the Denver International Airport, the piece depicted a giant mustang horse and had been under development for nearly a decade. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson ordered flags around the state to be flown at half-staff in honor of Jimenez and his life’s work. Today, works by Jimenez are featured in numerous public and private collections, such as New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of American Art, both in Washington, DC, among many others.
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Mustang
Color lithograph
47.5 x 31.5 in.
1997
Estimated value: $2,600
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