Mural Fragment Depicting a Maguey Bloodletting Ritual

1. Galerie Signoret-James, Mexico City, by Oct. 26, 1962 [this and the following according to incoming receipt RX4078, Oct. 26, 1962; copy in curatorial object file]; sold through Everett D. Rassiga to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1962.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• 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. 249, as <em>Mural Fragment Depicting Rain Priest</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, cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1054/ballplayers-gods-and-rainmaker-kings-ancient-mexican-masterpieces-from-the-national-museum-of-anthropology-in-mexico-city"><em>Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico</em></a>, Sept. 26, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat.

• Allen Wardwell, <em>Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 37 (ill.), as <em>Rain Priest Fresco</em>.
• Allen Wardwell, "An Early Fresco," <em>Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 60, no. 3 (May 1966): 12–13 (ill.), as <em>Fresco</em>, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4112737">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4112737</a>.
• Mary W. Helms, <em>Middle America: A Culture History of Heartland and Frontiers</em> (Prentice Hall, 1975), 58, fig. 5.4 (ill.).
• John Maxon, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Thames and Hudson, 1970), 240 (ill.), as <em>Painted Wall Decoration</em>.
• John Maxon, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, revised ed. (Thames and Hudson, 1977, reprinted 1983, 1987), 240 (ill.), as <em>Painted Wall Decoration</em>.
• Clara Millon, “Maguey Bloodletting Ritual” in <em>Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees: Reconstructing the Murals of Teotihuacan</em>, ed. Kathleen Berrin (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988), 195–205.
• Rene Millon, “Where Do They All Come From? The Provenance of the Wagner Murals from Teotihuacan,” in <em>Feathered Serpents and Flowering Trees: Reconstructing the Murals of Teotihuacan</em>, ed. Kathleen Berrin (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988), 78–113.
• Richard Townsend, ed., <em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 134, 142, 381, cat. 249, fig. 1 (ill.), as <em>Mural Fragment Depicting Rain Priest</em>.
• James N. Wood, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), 11 (ill.), as <em>Mural Fragment Depicting Rain Priest</em>.
• James N. Wood, <em>Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), 29 (ill.), as <em>Mural Fragment Depicting Rain Priest</em>.
• Dorothy Chaplik, <em>Latin American Arts and Cultures</em> (Davis Publications, 2000).
• James N. Wood, <em>The Essential Guide</em>, revised ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), 11 (ill.), as <em>Mural Fragment Depicting a Priest</em>.

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