Fun, food, music, and dance mark Cinco de Mayo, a national holiday celebrating unity and patriotism for Mexicans and Mexican Americans. 
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Fun, food, music, and dance mark Cinco de Mayo, a national holiday celebrating unity and patriotism for Mexicans and Mexican Americans.
Spanish for Fifth of May, the holiday commemorates the victory of the Mexicans over the French at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, despite the fact at the French troops were three times as large and better armed.
Our bronco busting sculpture Vaquero celebrates the fighting spirit of the Mexican cowboy.
Source: National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C. and Boston, New York, Toronto, and London: National Museum of American Art with Bulfinch Press, Little Brown and Company, 1995).
Pictured: Luis Jiménez, born 1940, Vaquero, modeled 1980, cast 1990, acrylic urethane, fiberglass, steel armature, 199 x 114 x 67 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Judith and Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., Anne and Ronald Abramson, Thelma and Melvin Lenkin.