Stela by Maya
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Stela

Maya · c. 702

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Private collector, US, by 1970 [according to correspondence from M. Huber, Mar. 5, 2014, the work was in the collection on the west coast US by 1970, copy in curatorial object file]; Robert J. Huber (Robert and Marianne Huber Fine Arts; Huber Primitive Art), Dixon, IL, and New York, by 1970 [this and the following according to correspondence from Patricia Atwood, Nov. 29, 1989, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Seth G. Atwood (1917–2010), Time Museum, Rockford, IL, Jan. 21, 1970 [incoming receipt, RX18131, Dec. 6, 1989, and invoice, Jan. 9, 1990, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Published references

  • James N. Wood, <em>Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), 29.
  • Joel Palka and Jeff Buechler, "Monument to a Matriarch: A Classic Maya Stela at the Art Institute of Chicago," <em>Mesoamerican Voices</em> 1 (2003), 41–46.
  • Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 216–217, cat. 173.

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