15063947Alonzo Jiminez19492005AlonzoJiminezhttps://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/4762/fullJiminez was born in Chupadero, but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when he was sixteen. He returned to Chupadero in 1972 and worked as a rough carpenter. While hitchiking, he was picked up by Felipe Benito Archuleta who put him to work carving animals. They had a falling out and in 1978 Jiminez started carving on his own. The earliest pieces are the most powerful, such as this orangutan. His later work, as so many of the Santa Fe carvers, accommodates the demands of the marketplace.(1949–2005)Alonzo Jiminez