
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Figure of a Seated Chieftain
Colima · 100 BCE–250 CE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Private collection, TX, c. 1969 [this and the following according to Ancient Art of the New World, Invoice 2039, no. 1-1286, June 13, 1997, copy in curatorial object file]. Claudia Giangola and John Menser, Ancient Art of the New World, New York, by 1997 [Incoming permanent receipt, RX21633, June 6, 1997, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, Mexican Fine Arts Center [National Museum of Mexican Art], <em>Mexicanidad</em>, Mar. 26, 2001–Mar. 26, 2002. no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past</em>, Sept. 5–Nov. 22, 1998, cat. 37; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 20–Mar. 29, 1999.
Literature
Published references
- Richard Townsend, ed., <em>Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 202–3, 284, cat. 37. fig. 17 (ill.).
- Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 164–165, cat. 142 (ill.)
- [incorrectly published as 1991.471].
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