About George O. Jackson de llano
My background in Mexican culture has had a major influence on my photography. I was raised in Laredo on the Mexican border and grew up as a Catholic in a bicultural household. My maternal family is Mexican, and I have always spent a lot of time in Mexico, beginning with frequent trips at an early age. A gourmand, bird enthusiast, and amateur botanist, in the 1970s I travelled frequently to the jungles of southern Mexico in search of rare palms and cycads. There I came in close contact with indigenous communities, which ignited my interest in the people and their traditional customs and festivals. My major photographic work, The Essence of Mexico Project, was a decade-long project to document the seasonal religious festivals - the syncretic rites and dances, costumes, masks, and ephemeral art - of the indigenous people, many of whom are still practicing traditions and honoring gods that date back to the advent of agriculture. The Essence of Mexico photographs, which continue to be shown around the world, are now in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas, Austin, which shares them with the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art, of the San Antonio Museum of Art.
My late father, George O. Jackson Sr., was an insurance executive, and I use the family name of my mother, Dolores María de Llano Villarreal, in my professional work, exhibiting under the name George O. Jackson de Llano. My mother's family came from the state of Nuevo León in northern Mexico, where my maternal great-grandfather, Rubén Villareal, owned silver mines. In around 1910, at the start of the Mexican Revolution, Villareal moved his family from Lampazos de Naranjo in Nuevo León to the border city of Laredo, Texas, where I grew up. My mother’s father was a descendant of Manuel María de Llano, who served as mayor of Monterrey and twice as governor of Nuevo León during the 19th century. My great uncle, Rodrigo de Llano, was co-founder and publisher of Excélsior, a major newspaper in Mexico City, from 1924 until his death in 1963.
I live in Houston, Texas, city of my birth, where I am working on my current series of photographs, Personajes Clandestinos Escondidos en La Luz, Colores e Sombras de La Obscuridad.
Photographic Work
2012 – present: I am exploring imagination through refracted color and light. With the sun as my source, I transform light and translucent forms into a range of abstract expressions and emotion.
2009 – 2012: Calaveras
The Calaveras photographs, based on a skull-shaped liquor bottle, draw upon a long tradition of death’s head imagery-from the ghoulish tzompantli (the racks of skulls and the carved stone walls built by the pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica) to the comic sugar skulls popular in Mexico today during celebrations of the Day of the Dead. The photographs experiment with light and color and with ordinary materials and everyday objects.
1990 – 2001: The Essence of Mexico Collection
The Essence of Mexico Project was conceived and conducted by Jackson from 1990 through 2001 and resulted in more than 75,000 color images of the traditional rites and ceremonies of more than 60 different indigenous cultural groups. Jackson donated the original images to the University of Texas in Austin, where they now reside in the Benson Collection of Latin American Art. The collection is shared with the San Antonio Museum of Art's Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art in San Antonio, Texas. 1984–1990 The Parklane Collection is a series of photographs of the Houston skyline, taken between 1984 and 1990, from Jackson’s 28th floor apartment.
1978–2003: The Embrujo Mexicano Collection: Corazon Fusilado
Most of the images in the Embrujo Mexicano Collection are from Mexico City from over a period of 25 years. The images for Corazon Fusilado were created out of the Embrujo Mexicano photographs by manually superimposing transparencies, allowing the subjects to bleed and burn. They are meant to reflect the superstitious in Mexican folk culture, with its pantheon of supernatural allies and demons.
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Colores de México, by the Mexican artist George O. Jackson. Maison du Folklore et des Traditions, Brussels, Belgium. Sept. 15–Dec. 2, 2012.
Tzompantli, Photographs by George O. Jackson de Llano. Cosas Gallery, Boerne, TX. Sept. 8–Nov. 4, 2012.
Calaveras Resplandecientes: George O. Jackson. Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM. Jan. 20–April 1, 2012.
2011 Couleurs rebelles du Mexique. Photographies de George O. Jackson. La Photogalerie de la Maison des Amériques Latines, Paris, France. Oct. 11, 2011–Jan. 19, 2012.
Mexican Cycles: Imágenes de George O. Jackson de Llano. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City. Feb. 20–March 20, 2011.
A Celebration of Mexican Independence: George O. Jackson Photography Exhibit. Imagination Celebration, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. Dec. 2–22, 2011. 2010
El Arte de la Fiesta. Ritos del Norte de México. Fotografías por George O. Jackson. Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, Mexico, DF. Octubre 2010.
2008 El Cuerpo Adornado: Exploring the Aesthetic Spirit, Photographs by George O. Jackson, Jr. The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX. March 15–May 25, 2008.
2007 Mexican Cycles: Festival Images by George O. Jackson de Llano. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. Sept. 26, 2007–April 20, 2008.
2006 Encanto Mexicano: The Photography of George O. Jackson, Jr. Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX. Sept. 15–Nov. 5, 2006.
2000 Contact: Christians and Moors. Image and Ritual in Mexico. Photographs by George O. Jackson. Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX; Salt Lake City Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT. Organized by Carla Stellweg, curated by Roberto Tejada, funded by the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation and the Houston Artist Fund, with grants from Friends of the Essence of Mexico Project. April–June 2000.
Carnival of Ancient Spring: The Huastecan Rites of Purification and Renewal. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX, and FotoFest, 2000. Feb. 2–8, 2000.
1999 Summer Festivals of Southwest Mexico. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois. August–October 1999. 1997 Encuentros Recientes. Mardi Gras Museum, Galveston, TX. February 1997.
1996 Cycles of the Sun – Festivals of the North. or Carnival of Ancient Spring: Huastecan Rites of Purification and Renewal. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX. March–November 1996.
1995 Summer Festivals of Southwest Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX. Funded by the US/Mexico Fund for Culture, created and sponsored by the Fundacion Cultural Bancomer, Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts, and The Rockefeller Foundation. March–September 1995.
Photographs from the Essence of Mexico Project. University of California, Davis, California. January–March 1995. Stim & Dross: Rethinking the Metropolis. An exhibit based on an article written and illustrated by Lars Lerup, with photographs by George O. Jackson. Rice University, Houston, TX. 1995. 1993 La Esencia de Mexico. Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, Mexico, D.F. January–July 1993. Photographic exhibition and slide presentation at the Instituto Frances de America Latina (French Embassy), Mexico, D.F. as part of a tribute to the late Francois Reichenbach. June 1993. 1992 The Essence of Mexico. Instituto Cultural Mexicano, San Antonio, TX. May-August 1992.
The Essence of Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX. January-May 1992. 1986 Houston, The Sky and the City. Transco Tower, Houston Sesquicentennial Celebration.1986
Group Exhibitions
2011 Pecha Kucha Night Austin #11. Austin, TX. April 27, 2011. 2007 Photographs Celebrate Texas Nature: The Nature Conservancy of Texas. William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX. May 12–June 23, 2007. 2000 Puertas de la Eternidad, Mexican Days of the Dead. Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL. November 2000. 1996 Embrujo Mexicano. Foto Septiembre 96 – Mexico’s Month of Photography, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Jalisco. September 1996.
Grants and Awards
2002 The Goldsbury Foundation, San Antonio, TX.
1998 The Tate Foundation, Houston, TX.
1998 The Goldsbury Foundation, San Antonio, TX.
1996 The Tate Foundation, Houston, TX.
1996 Nuevo Energy, Houston, TX.
1993 US-Mexico Fund for Culture (Fundación Bancomer, the Rockefeller Foundation, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y les Artes), Mexico, D.F.
1992 Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y les Artes, Mexico, D.F.
1991 Secretaria de Turismo, Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Mexico, D.F.
1990 Torch Energy Advisors, Houston, TX.
1986 “Best Magazine Picture Story” in the “Excellence in Journalism” category from the Houston Press Club for the exhibition, Houston, The Sky and the City, at the Transco Tower during Houston’s Sesquicentennial Celebration in 1986.
1986 Grand Prize Winner for the photograph “Texas Star,” selected by Jean Michel Jarre following his outdoor Rendez-Vous Houston concert celebrating the 1986 Houston and Texas Sesquicentennial. The image was made into a poster commemorating the event.
Books and Publications
Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality. Anita González. Photographs by George O. Jackson, Jr. and Jose Manuel Pellicer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods, Meredith Dreiss and Sharon Edgar Greenhill. With photographs by George O. Jackson. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008.
Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers/Antología de Escritores Actuales en Lenguas Indígenas de México. A three-volume anthology of indigenous narrative, poetry, and theater. Edited by Carlos Montemayor and Donald Frischmann. Photographs by George O. Jackson, Jr. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004, 2005, and 2006. Mexique Vivant. Jean Mazel. Photography George O. Jackson. Le Pontet, France: Alain Barthélémy, 1999.
“Fiestas: Where Contemporary Mexican Tribes and Ancient Customs Meet,” by George O. Jackson Jr. Houston: Visions of the West: The Corporate Art Collections of Torch Energy Advisors Incorporated and Gulf Canada Resources Limited, 1999.
Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico. Edited by William H. Beezley, Cheryl E. Martin, and William E. French. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994. Fiesta Mexicanas. Marta Turok y Imelde de Leon. Fotografias por George O. Jackson de Llano. México, DF: Editorial Jilguero, 1992.
Houston: A Self Portrait. Edited by Jerry Herring. Text by Douglas Milburn. Photographs by George O. Jackson, et al. Houston: Herring Press, 1986.
Collections
Museum Collections:
The Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art,
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
The Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
Corporate Collections:
Gulf Canada Resources, Denver, Colorado
Houston Savings Bank, Hempstead, TX
IBC Bank, Houston, TX
Nuevo Energy, Houston, TX
Torch Energy Advisors, Inc., Houston, TX
Selected Articles and Reviews
Abatemarco, Michael. “George O. Jackson: Calaveras Resplandecientes at Center for Contemporary Arts.” art ltd Magazine. March 2012.
Owensby, Susan. “¡Vamonos a Mexico!” The Sound Kitchen. January 7, 2012. – View Now
Ruy-Sánchez, Alberto. “Colores rebeldes de México.” sinembargo.mx. Octubre 20 de 2011.
Ruy-Sánchez, Alberto. “Exposición de George O. Jackson en París.” Artes de México. Octubre de 2011.
México celebra el Día Internacional de la Lengua Materna.” El Choro matutino. 21 de febrero de 2011.- View Now Rodríguez, Ana Mónica. “Pequeños de 12 estados, al rescate de la tradición oral, en el Museo de Antropología.” Periódico La Jornada. Domingo 20 de febrero de 2011, p. 5. – View Now
Rivera, Niza. “Festejos por el Día Internacional de la Lengua Materna.” Proceso. 18 de febrero de 2011. – View Now
Adair, Marita. “George O. Jackson Photo Exhibit In San Antonio: Legacy of George O. Jackson, Mexican Festivals A Feast for the Eyes.” Mexico Premiere. Feb. 25, 2008. – View Now
“Tribute To Mr. George O. Jackson De Llano.” Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Tex, House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Sept. 5, 2007.
‘"Embrujo mexicano,’ an exhibit of photographs by George O. Jackson, Jr. opens at the Benson Collection on February 9,” Jan. 31, 2006.
Johnson, Patricia. “Parklane Collection Looks to the Sky.” The Houston Chronicle, Jan. 3, 1987, Star Edition, Section Houston, p. 1. – View Now
Links The Essence of Mexico Project – View Now
George O. Jackson, Jr., Essence of Mexico Collection, Benson Latin American Collection, the University of Texas at Austin – View Now
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas.
My late father, George O. Jackson Sr., was an insurance executive, and I use the family name of my mother, Dolores María de Llano Villarreal, in my professional work, exhibiting under the name George O. Jackson de Llano. My mother's family came from the state of Nuevo León in northern Mexico, where my maternal great-grandfather, Rubén Villareal, owned silver mines. In around 1910, at the start of the Mexican Revolution, Villareal moved his family from Lampazos de Naranjo in Nuevo León to the border city of Laredo, Texas, where I grew up. My mother’s father was a descendant of Manuel María de Llano, who served as mayor of Monterrey and twice as governor of Nuevo León during the 19th century. My great uncle, Rodrigo de Llano, was co-founder and publisher of Excélsior, a major newspaper in Mexico City, from 1924 until his death in 1963.
I live in Houston, Texas, city of my birth, where I am working on my current series of photographs, Personajes Clandestinos Escondidos en La Luz, Colores e Sombras de La Obscuridad.
Photographic Work
2012 – present: I am exploring imagination through refracted color and light. With the sun as my source, I transform light and translucent forms into a range of abstract expressions and emotion.
2009 – 2012: Calaveras
The Calaveras photographs, based on a skull-shaped liquor bottle, draw upon a long tradition of death’s head imagery-from the ghoulish tzompantli (the racks of skulls and the carved stone walls built by the pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica) to the comic sugar skulls popular in Mexico today during celebrations of the Day of the Dead. The photographs experiment with light and color and with ordinary materials and everyday objects.
1990 – 2001: The Essence of Mexico Collection
The Essence of Mexico Project was conceived and conducted by Jackson from 1990 through 2001 and resulted in more than 75,000 color images of the traditional rites and ceremonies of more than 60 different indigenous cultural groups. Jackson donated the original images to the University of Texas in Austin, where they now reside in the Benson Collection of Latin American Art. The collection is shared with the San Antonio Museum of Art's Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art in San Antonio, Texas. 1984–1990 The Parklane Collection is a series of photographs of the Houston skyline, taken between 1984 and 1990, from Jackson’s 28th floor apartment.
1978–2003: The Embrujo Mexicano Collection: Corazon Fusilado
Most of the images in the Embrujo Mexicano Collection are from Mexico City from over a period of 25 years. The images for Corazon Fusilado were created out of the Embrujo Mexicano photographs by manually superimposing transparencies, allowing the subjects to bleed and burn. They are meant to reflect the superstitious in Mexican folk culture, with its pantheon of supernatural allies and demons.
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Colores de México, by the Mexican artist George O. Jackson. Maison du Folklore et des Traditions, Brussels, Belgium. Sept. 15–Dec. 2, 2012.
Tzompantli, Photographs by George O. Jackson de Llano. Cosas Gallery, Boerne, TX. Sept. 8–Nov. 4, 2012.
Calaveras Resplandecientes: George O. Jackson. Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM. Jan. 20–April 1, 2012.
2011 Couleurs rebelles du Mexique. Photographies de George O. Jackson. La Photogalerie de la Maison des Amériques Latines, Paris, France. Oct. 11, 2011–Jan. 19, 2012.
Mexican Cycles: Imágenes de George O. Jackson de Llano. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City. Feb. 20–March 20, 2011.
A Celebration of Mexican Independence: George O. Jackson Photography Exhibit. Imagination Celebration, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. Dec. 2–22, 2011. 2010
El Arte de la Fiesta. Ritos del Norte de México. Fotografías por George O. Jackson. Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, Mexico, DF. Octubre 2010.
2008 El Cuerpo Adornado: Exploring the Aesthetic Spirit, Photographs by George O. Jackson, Jr. The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX. March 15–May 25, 2008.
2007 Mexican Cycles: Festival Images by George O. Jackson de Llano. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. Sept. 26, 2007–April 20, 2008.
2006 Encanto Mexicano: The Photography of George O. Jackson, Jr. Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX. Sept. 15–Nov. 5, 2006.
2000 Contact: Christians and Moors. Image and Ritual in Mexico. Photographs by George O. Jackson. Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX; Salt Lake City Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT. Organized by Carla Stellweg, curated by Roberto Tejada, funded by the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation and the Houston Artist Fund, with grants from Friends of the Essence of Mexico Project. April–June 2000.
Carnival of Ancient Spring: The Huastecan Rites of Purification and Renewal. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX, and FotoFest, 2000. Feb. 2–8, 2000.
1999 Summer Festivals of Southwest Mexico. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois. August–October 1999. 1997 Encuentros Recientes. Mardi Gras Museum, Galveston, TX. February 1997.
1996 Cycles of the Sun – Festivals of the North. or Carnival of Ancient Spring: Huastecan Rites of Purification and Renewal. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX. March–November 1996.
1995 Summer Festivals of Southwest Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX. Funded by the US/Mexico Fund for Culture, created and sponsored by the Fundacion Cultural Bancomer, Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts, and The Rockefeller Foundation. March–September 1995.
Photographs from the Essence of Mexico Project. University of California, Davis, California. January–March 1995. Stim & Dross: Rethinking the Metropolis. An exhibit based on an article written and illustrated by Lars Lerup, with photographs by George O. Jackson. Rice University, Houston, TX. 1995. 1993 La Esencia de Mexico. Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, Mexico, D.F. January–July 1993. Photographic exhibition and slide presentation at the Instituto Frances de America Latina (French Embassy), Mexico, D.F. as part of a tribute to the late Francois Reichenbach. June 1993. 1992 The Essence of Mexico. Instituto Cultural Mexicano, San Antonio, TX. May-August 1992.
The Essence of Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX. January-May 1992. 1986 Houston, The Sky and the City. Transco Tower, Houston Sesquicentennial Celebration.1986
Group Exhibitions
2011 Pecha Kucha Night Austin #11. Austin, TX. April 27, 2011. 2007 Photographs Celebrate Texas Nature: The Nature Conservancy of Texas. William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX. May 12–June 23, 2007. 2000 Puertas de la Eternidad, Mexican Days of the Dead. Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL. November 2000. 1996 Embrujo Mexicano. Foto Septiembre 96 – Mexico’s Month of Photography, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Jalisco. September 1996.
Grants and Awards
2002 The Goldsbury Foundation, San Antonio, TX.
1998 The Tate Foundation, Houston, TX.
1998 The Goldsbury Foundation, San Antonio, TX.
1996 The Tate Foundation, Houston, TX.
1996 Nuevo Energy, Houston, TX.
1993 US-Mexico Fund for Culture (Fundación Bancomer, the Rockefeller Foundation, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y les Artes), Mexico, D.F.
1992 Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y les Artes, Mexico, D.F.
1991 Secretaria de Turismo, Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Mexico, D.F.
1990 Torch Energy Advisors, Houston, TX.
1986 “Best Magazine Picture Story” in the “Excellence in Journalism” category from the Houston Press Club for the exhibition, Houston, The Sky and the City, at the Transco Tower during Houston’s Sesquicentennial Celebration in 1986.
1986 Grand Prize Winner for the photograph “Texas Star,” selected by Jean Michel Jarre following his outdoor Rendez-Vous Houston concert celebrating the 1986 Houston and Texas Sesquicentennial. The image was made into a poster commemorating the event.
Books and Publications
Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality. Anita González. Photographs by George O. Jackson, Jr. and Jose Manuel Pellicer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods, Meredith Dreiss and Sharon Edgar Greenhill. With photographs by George O. Jackson. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008.
Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers/Antología de Escritores Actuales en Lenguas Indígenas de México. A three-volume anthology of indigenous narrative, poetry, and theater. Edited by Carlos Montemayor and Donald Frischmann. Photographs by George O. Jackson, Jr. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004, 2005, and 2006. Mexique Vivant. Jean Mazel. Photography George O. Jackson. Le Pontet, France: Alain Barthélémy, 1999.
“Fiestas: Where Contemporary Mexican Tribes and Ancient Customs Meet,” by George O. Jackson Jr. Houston: Visions of the West: The Corporate Art Collections of Torch Energy Advisors Incorporated and Gulf Canada Resources Limited, 1999.
Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico. Edited by William H. Beezley, Cheryl E. Martin, and William E. French. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994. Fiesta Mexicanas. Marta Turok y Imelde de Leon. Fotografias por George O. Jackson de Llano. México, DF: Editorial Jilguero, 1992.
Houston: A Self Portrait. Edited by Jerry Herring. Text by Douglas Milburn. Photographs by George O. Jackson, et al. Houston: Herring Press, 1986.
Collections
Museum Collections:
The Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art,
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
The Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
Corporate Collections:
Gulf Canada Resources, Denver, Colorado
Houston Savings Bank, Hempstead, TX
IBC Bank, Houston, TX
Nuevo Energy, Houston, TX
Torch Energy Advisors, Inc., Houston, TX
Selected Articles and Reviews
Abatemarco, Michael. “George O. Jackson: Calaveras Resplandecientes at Center for Contemporary Arts.” art ltd Magazine. March 2012.
Owensby, Susan. “¡Vamonos a Mexico!” The Sound Kitchen. January 7, 2012. – View Now
Ruy-Sánchez, Alberto. “Colores rebeldes de México.” sinembargo.mx. Octubre 20 de 2011.
Ruy-Sánchez, Alberto. “Exposición de George O. Jackson en París.” Artes de México. Octubre de 2011.
México celebra el Día Internacional de la Lengua Materna.” El Choro matutino. 21 de febrero de 2011.- View Now Rodríguez, Ana Mónica. “Pequeños de 12 estados, al rescate de la tradición oral, en el Museo de Antropología.” Periódico La Jornada. Domingo 20 de febrero de 2011, p. 5. – View Now
Rivera, Niza. “Festejos por el Día Internacional de la Lengua Materna.” Proceso. 18 de febrero de 2011. – View Now
Adair, Marita. “George O. Jackson Photo Exhibit In San Antonio: Legacy of George O. Jackson, Mexican Festivals A Feast for the Eyes.” Mexico Premiere. Feb. 25, 2008. – View Now
“Tribute To Mr. George O. Jackson De Llano.” Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Tex, House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Sept. 5, 2007.
‘"Embrujo mexicano,’ an exhibit of photographs by George O. Jackson, Jr. opens at the Benson Collection on February 9,” Jan. 31, 2006.
Johnson, Patricia. “Parklane Collection Looks to the Sky.” The Houston Chronicle, Jan. 3, 1987, Star Edition, Section Houston, p. 1. – View Now
Links The Essence of Mexico Project – View Now
George O. Jackson, Jr., Essence of Mexico Collection, Benson Latin American Collection, the University of Texas at Austin – View Now
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas.
