Standing Figurine by Olmec
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Standing Figurine

Olmec · 800–400 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Alphonse Jax, New York, by Oct. 1970 [incoming permanent receipt RX7694, Oct. 7, 1970, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Arts Club of Chicago, <em>High Culture in the Americas before 1500</em>, Nov. 15–Dec. 31, 1982, cat. 1.
  • 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. 205, as <em>Male Figure</em>; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–April 18, 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–Aug. 15, 1993.
  • Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Museum of Art, <em>The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership</em>, Dec. 16, 1995–Feb. 25, 1996, cat. (not in cat.); traveled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Apr. 14–June 6, 1996.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico</em>, Sept. 26, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Allen Wardwell, “An Olmec Figure,” <em>Calendar of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 66, 4 (Sept.–Oct. 1973): 8–9 (ill.)
  • Everett McNear, <em>High Culture in the Americas before 1500</em>, exh. cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1982), 3, cat. 1 (ill).
  • Richard Townsend, ed., <em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 380, cat. 205, as <em>Male Figure</em>.
  • James N. Wood, <em>Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago</em>(Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), 28 (ill.).
  • Richard Townsend and Elizabeth Pope, <em>Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 14–15 (ill.)
  • Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 129, cat. 100 (ill.).

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