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Wade Fund, 1941.390", "current_location": "233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region", "title": "Seated Figure", "creation_date": "c. 900\u2013300 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -900, "creation_date_latest": -300, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Mesoamerica, Mexico, Olmec"], "technique": "albitite", "support_materials": [], "department": "Art of the Americas", "collection": "AA - Mesoamerica", "type": "Jade", "measurements": "Overall: 11 x 6.2 x 3.9 cm (4 5/16 x 2 7/16 x 1 9/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.11, "height_inch": 4, "height_inch_fraction": 0.3125, "width": 0.062, "width_inch": 2, "width_inch_fraction": 0.4375, "depth": 0.039, "depth_inch": 1, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.5625}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 312180, "title": "Art of the Americas", "description": "<i>Art of the Americas</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 19-April 11, 1943).", "opening_date": "1943-03-19T04:00:00"}, {"id": 312131, "title": "Art of the Americas", "description": "<i>Art of the Americas</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9, 1945-January 6, 1946).", "opening_date": "1945-11-09T05:00:00"}, {"id": 444971, "title": "Pre-Columbian Art of the Gulf States", "description": "<i>Pre-Columbian Art of the Gulf States</i>. Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL (organizer) (January 11-February 11, 1973).", "opening_date": "1973-01-11T05:00:00"}, {"id": 380109, "title": "The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership", "description": "<i>The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership</i>. Princeton University Art Museum (organizer) (December 16, 1995-March 3, 1996); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (April 7-June 9, 1996).", "opening_date": "1995-12-16T05:00:00"}, {"id": 398482, "title": "The Art of the Olmec Civilization", "description": "<i>The Art of the Olmec Civilization</i>. National Gallery of Art (organizer) (June 30-October 20, 1996).", "opening_date": "1996-06-30T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "Toledo, OH: The Museum of Art; January 1944. \"The Ancient Art of the North American Continent.\"", "opening_date": "1944-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; November 9, 1945-January 6, 1946. \"Art of the Americas.\" repr. in catalogue, black and white, p. 29.", "opening_date": "1945-11-09T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Cincinnati, OH: The Taft Museum; October 6-November 19, 1950. \"Ancient American Jade and Gold.\" exh. cat. no. 1.", "opening_date": "1950-10-06T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Palm Beach, FL: The Society of the Four Arts; January 10 - February 1,1953. \"Pre-Columbian Art: The Native Art of America Before the Conquest.\" Cat. no. 2, no repr.", "opening_date": "1953-01-10T05:00:00Z"}, {"description": "Munich, Germany: Haus der Kunst; October 17-December 12, 1958. exh. cat. no. 326, repr. black and white pl. 40a. Zurich, Switzerland; Kunsthaus; January 1- February 28, 1959. exh. cat. no. 31, repr. black and white pl. 8a.", "opening_date": "1958-10-17T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Paris, France: Galerie Charpentier; March 15- May 15, 1959. exh. cat. no. 18. The Netherlands: The Hague; June1- July 31, 1959. Berlin, Germany: Academie der Kunst; October 3- November 22, 1959. Circulating exhibition of \"Pre- Columbian Art from Mexico and Central America.\"", "opening_date": "1959-03-15T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Coral Gables, FL: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami; January 11-February 11, 1973. \"Pre- Colombian Art of the Gulf States.\" exh. cat. no. 43, repr. p. 23.", "opening_date": "1973-01-11T00:00:00"}, {"description": "New York, NY: The Museum of Modern Art. \"Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art.\" exh. cat. no. 2, p. 32, exh. cat. no. 3, p. 34.", "opening_date": null}, {"description": "Los Angeles, CA: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; September 26, 2010- January 9, 2011. San Francisco, CA: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; February 19- May 30, 2011. \"Olmec: Collossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico.\"", "opening_date": "2011-02-19T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Like their contemporaries, the Olmec made figurines but of greenstone rather than clay. 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Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 290", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n314"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 290", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n314"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 392", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n412"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 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