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Chak Ak’ Paat Kuy ("Red Turkey") Playing the Ballgame
Maya · 650-700
Provenance
Ownership history
- Walter Randel Gallery, New York, by 1965 [incoming receipt, June 18, 1965, and letter from Gordan Ekholm, June 15, 1965; copies in curatorial file; Wardwell 1967]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1965.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, <em>Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art</em>, May 17–Aug. 24, 1986, cat. 101; Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 8–Dec. 14, 1986.
- Leiden, Netherlands, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, <em>Ulama: het balspel bij de Maya's en Azteken, 2000 v. Chr.–2000 n. Chr.: van mensenoffer tot sport</em> [Ulama: the ballgame of the Mayas and Aztecs, 2000 BC–AD 2000: from human sacrifice to sport], June 18–Sept. 12, 1988, cat. 148.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/7966/the-ancient-americas-art-from-sacred-landscapes"><em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em></a>, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 125, as <em>Panel Depicting Ball Game</em>; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–April 18, 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–Aug. 15, 1993.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8880/chicago-s-dream-a-world-s-treasure-the-art-institute-1893-1993"><em>Chicago’s Dream, A World’s Treasure: The Art Institute, 1893–1993</em></a>, Nov. 1, 1993–Jan. 9. 1994 (not in cat.).
Literature
Published references
- The Art Quarterly, “Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums,” <em>The Art Quarterly</em> 28, no. 1–2 (1965): 104 (as “wall panel”).
- The Art Quarterly, “Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums,” <em>The Art Quarterly</em> 29, no. 1 (1966): 71, fig. 77, center (ill.), (as “Stele”).
- Allen Wardwell, "A Maya Ball Game Relief," <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em>, 2 (1967): 62–73 (ill.), <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4108782"> https://www.jstor.org/stable/4108782</a>.
- Clemency Coggins, “Illicit Traffic of Pre-Columbian Antiquities,” <em>Art Journal</em> (Fall 1969): 96 (as “El Cayo, ballplayer panel, 4”).
- Allen Wardwell, "Mayan Treasures at the Art Institute of Chicago," <em>Apollo: The International Magazine of Arts</em> (June 1972): 491, fig. 8 (ill.).
- John Maxon, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Thames and Hudson, 1970), 241–42 (ill.), as <em>Wall Panel</em>.
- Michael D. Coe, <em>Maya Scribe and His World</em> (Grolier Club, 1973), 29-30, cat. 4 and 5.
- Mary W. Helms, <em>Middle America: A Culture History of Heartland and Frontiers</em> (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1975), 65, fig. 5.6 (ill.).
- John Maxon, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, revised ed. (Thames and Hudson, 1977, reprinted 1983, 1987), 241–42 (ill.), as <em>Wall Panel</em>.
- Karl Herbert Mayer, <em>Maya Monuments: Sculptures of Unknown Provenance in the United States</em> (Ramona, CA: Acoma Books, 1980), 17–19, cat. 5; pl. 26 (ill.).
- John Maxon, ed., <em>The Art Institute of Chicago</em> (London: Thames and Hudson, 1977), 241–42.
- Linda Schele and Mary Ellen Miller, <em>The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art</em>, exh. cat. (G. Braziller; Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, 1986), 256–257, 266, pl. 101 (ill.).
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