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Seated Female Figure Holding a Bowl
Colima · 100–800 CE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Everett D. Rassiga (1922–2003), New York, by 1958 [according to correspondence from A. McNear, Oct. 16, 1986, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Everett (1904–1984) and Ann (died 1994) McNear, Chicago, by 1960 [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago for exhibition <em>Primitive Art from Chicago Collections</em>, Wardwell 1960, cat. 24]; by descent to Ann McNear, Chicago, 1984 [incoming receipt, RX16234, Oct. 15, 1986, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Primitive Art From Chicago Collections</em>, Nov. 16, 1960–Jan. 2, 1961, cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>The Art of Tribes and Early Kingdoms: Selections from Chicago Collections</em>, Jan. 12–Mar. 4, 1984, cat. fig. 36.
Literature
Published references
- Allen Wardwell, <em>Primitive Art from Chicago Collections</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1960), fig. 24 (ill.).
- Richard Townsend, <em>The Art of Tribes and Early Kingdoms: Selections from Chicago Collections</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1983), 26-27, fig. 36 (ill.).
- Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 156, cat. 130 (ill.).
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