page_title: Luz Jiménez
section_title: Works in which Jiménez appears
hierarchical_section_title: Luz Jiménez / Works in which Jiménez appears
caption_attribution_description: English: "Fuente de los Cántaros" fountain in Parque México, col. Hipódromo, Condesa, Mexico City. Luz Jiménez was the model, a symbol of "mexicanidad" or Mexican-ness.
context_page_description: Luz Jiménez or Luciana was an indigenous Mexican model and Nahuatl-language storyteller and linguistic informant from Milpa Alta, D.F.
  As a young woman she witnessed the Mexican Revolution, and was present when Emiliano Zapata and his revolutionary army entered Milpa Alta in 1911. Her eyewitness account is one of the only testimonies of Emiliano Zapata speaking Nahuatl. In 1916 most of her male relatives were killed in a massacre by the Carrancistas.
  In the 1930s she served as a linguistic informant to linguists working to document the Nahuatl language. Among others she worked with Benjamin Lee Whorf who credits her in his description of Milpa Alta Nahuatl. She also worked as a model for artist Diego Rivera and her portrait can be seen in at least three of his murals, one of them the famous Tlatelolco market scene.
  In 1942 she started work as a model at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" in Frida Kahlo's classes.
  In her old age she told her life's story to anthropologist Fernando Horcasitas who published it with the title "Life and Death in Milpa Alta".
  As the godparents of her daughter Concha, Jean Charlot and Anita Brenner were her compadres.
context_section_description: Jiménez as a model appears inter alia in the following works:
  Fuente de los Cántaros ("Fountain of the Jugs", by José María Fernández Urbina) in Parque México, Condesa, Mexico City
  Diego Rivera:
  La Creación, (1922), San Ildefonso College, then the National Preparatory School
  La molendera (1926)
  Portrait by photographers Edward Weston and Tina Modotti (1940)
  Drawing of Luz Jiménez (April 1924) by Jean Charlot
caption: Fuente de los Cántaros (Fountain of the jugs) by  José María Fernández Urbina in Parque México, Condesa, Mexico City, for which Jiménez modeled
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