Border Crossing/Cruzando el Rio Bravo

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Border Crossing/Cruzando el Rio Bravo, or Border Crossing (Cruzando el Rio Bravo),{{Cite news|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2008/03/06/a-new-mile-high-icon/|title=A new mile-high icon|date=2008-03-06|work=The Denver Post|access-date=2018-04-24|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-04-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424135904/https://www.denverpost.com/2008/03/06/a-new-mile-high-icon/|url-status=live}} is a sculpture by Luis Jiménez. It depicts a Mexican man carrying his wife and their baby on his shoulders as they cross the Rio Grande.{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-28-ca-927-story.html|title=Chicano Artist Alters Stereotypes: Art: Luis Jimenez brings a human dimension to undocumented workers and lowriders. Some of his work is showing in Venice.|last=SNOW|first=SHAUNA|date=1992-04-28|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2018-04-24|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|archive-date=2023-10-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002213614/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-28-ca-927-story.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/visual-arts/sdut-san-diego-museum-of-art-open-air-2016mar12-htmlstory.html|title=At SDMA, a move from the vault to the open air|last=Gaugh|first=Catherine|work=sandiegouniontribune.com|access-date=2018-04-24|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-02-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002229/http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/visual-arts/sdut-san-diego-museum-of-art-open-air-2016mar12-htmlstory.html|url-status=live}}

One fiberglass copy, completed in 1989, was purchased by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the San Diego Museum of Art and installed in the May S. Marcy Sculpture Garden.{{Cite web|url=http://collection.mcasd.org/objects/5166/border-crossingcruzando-el-rio-bravo;jsessionid=FD0C8A936C166D632FC5E7F73E3A4CAD?ctx=6d2b0dde-7ae4-438a-bd22-0255a0cd00c9&idx=5|title=Border Crossing/Cruzando El Rio Bravo – Works – eMuseum|website=collection.mcasd.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-24|archive-date=2018-04-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424135633/http://collection.mcasd.org/objects/5166/border-crossingcruzando-el-rio-bravo;jsessionid=FD0C8A936C166D632FC5E7F73E3A4CAD?ctx=6d2b0dde-7ae4-438a-bd22-0255a0cd00c9&idx=5|url-status=live}} Others are part of the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, Texas),{{Cite web|url=http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2921|title=Cruzando El Rio Bravo [Border Crossing] · Blanton Museum of Art Collections|website=utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-24|archive-date=2018-09-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928171500/http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2921|url-status=live}} the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,{{Cite web|url=https://www.mfah.org/art/detail/14287?returnUrl=%2Fart%2Fsearch%3Fclassification%3DSculpture%7CPainting&display=list&artist=Luis+Jim%C3%A9nez|title=Border Crossing (Cruzando el Rio Bravo)|publisher=Museum of Fine Arts, Houston|access-date=2018-04-24|archive-date=2018-04-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424135557/https://www.mfah.org/art/detail/14287?returnUrl=%2Fart%2Fsearch%3Fclassification%3DSculpture%7CPainting&display=list&artist=Luis+Jim%C3%A9nez|url-status=live}} and the New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico).{{Cite web|url=http://online.nmartmuseum.org/nmhistory/art/border-crossing2.html|title=New Mexico Tells New Mexico History {{!}} Border Crossing|website=online.nmartmuseum.org|access-date=2018-04-24|archive-date=2018-04-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424202341/http://online.nmartmuseum.org/nmhistory/art/border-crossing2.html|url-status=live}} Two others are installed at Iowa State University{{cite web|url=https://www.museums.iastate.edu/about/blog/2020/06/05/a-favorite-stop-on-an-art-on-campus-tour|title=Iowa State University|access-date=2020-06-08|archive-date=2020-06-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608161305/https://www.museums.iastate.edu/about/blog/2020/06/05/a-favorite-stop-on-an-art-on-campus-tour|url-status=live}} in Ames, Iowa, and The University of Texas at San Antonio.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}