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Figure of a Standing Warrior

Maya · 650–800

Provenance

Ownership history

Everett D. Rassiga (1922–2003), Black Tulip Galleries, Dallas, TX, by Mar. 1963 [incoming receipt, RX4243, Mar. 18, 1963, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1963.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8880/chicago-s-dream-a-world-s-treasure-the-art-institute-1893-1993">Chicago’s Dream, A World’s Treasure: the Art Institute, 1893-1993</a>, Nov. 1, 1993–Jan. 9, 1994, cat.

Literature

Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 43 (ill.).
Allen Wardwell, "Mayan Treasures at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo: The International Magazine of Arts (June 1972): 490, fig. 5.
Mary W. Helms, Middle America: A Culture History of Heartland and Frontiers (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1975), 87, fig. 6.3.
Richard Townsend and Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “The Art Institute of Chicago New Galleries,” in Tribal Arts XVI-1/62 (Winter 2011): 65, figure 13 (ill.).
Clare Kunny, “Leonora Carrington’s Mexican Vision,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 22, no. 2 (1996): 166-179, fig. 9.
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 208, cat. 165 (ill.).

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