
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Female Figurine
Inca · 1450–1532
Provenance
Ownership history
- Allan Caplan (1913–1998), New York, by Oct. 30, 1964 [incoming receipt, RX4879, Oct. 30, 1964; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1965.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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. 86, as <em>Votive Female Figurine</em>; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–April 18, 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–Aug. 15, 1993.
Literature
Published references
- Richard F. Townsend, ed., <em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 377, cat. 86, as <em>Votive Female Figurine</em>.
- Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em> Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 374, cat. 350 (ill.).
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