id: 127239 accession number: 1949.555 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.555 updated: 2024-08-15 15:28:29.524000 Seated Male Carrying Maize, 1325–1521. Central Mexico, Aztec style, 13th-16th century. Stone, pigment; overall: 31.1 x 24.1 x 30.5 cm (12 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1949.555 title: Seated Male Carrying Maize title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1325–1521 creation date earliest: 1325 creation date latest: 1521 current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region creditline: The Norweb Collection copyright: --- culture: Central Mexico, Aztec style, 13th-16th century technique: stone, pigment department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 31.1 x 24.1 x 30.5 cm (12 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 12 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of the Month: Herbs in Art opening date: 1953-05-08T04:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: Herbs in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 8-August 1, 1953). title: The Imagination of Primitive Man opening date: 1962-01-18T05:00:00 The Imagination of Primitive Man. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (organizer) (January 18-February 25, 1962). title: Man and His World opening date: 1967-04-27T05:00:00 Man and His World. Expo 67, Montreal, Canada (organizer) (April 27-October 28, 1967). title: The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland opening date: 2001-05-13T00:00:00 The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (organizer) (May 13-August 26, 2001); Austin Museum of Art (Texas Fine Arts Association) (October 19-December 30, 2001); The Albuquerque Museum (February 10-April 28, 2002). title: The Aztecs opening date: 2002-11-12T00:00:00 The Aztecs. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (November 16, 2002-April 11, 2003). title: The Aztec Empire opening date: 2004-10-14T00:00:00 The Aztec Empire. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 14, 2004-February 15, 2005). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'The Imagination of Primitive Man, Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (January 18- February 25, 1962).', 'opening_date': '1962-01-18T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Man and His World, International Fine Arts Exhibition, Montreal, Canada (April 28- October 27, 1967).', 'opening_date': '1967-04-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Azteca-Mexica, Madrid, Spain (1992).', 'opening_date': '1992-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983] and Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland OH, gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1949 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1949- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 361 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n69 William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World. Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962. page number: cat. no. 247, p. 152 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 292 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n316 National Gallery of Canada, and Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau). Terre Des Hommes: Exposition Internationale Des Beaux-Arts, 28 Avril-27 Octobre 1967 = Man and His World, International Fine Arts Exhibition, Expo 67, Montreal, Canada, 28 April-27 October 1967. [Montréal]: [Expo 67], 1967. page number: cat. no. 77, pp. 162 url: Grieder, Terence. Austin: University of Texas, vol. 67 (Fall 1968). page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 292 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n316 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 395 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n415 Pasztory, Esther. Aztec Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1983. page number: pl. 204, p. 229 url: Alcina Franch, José, Miguel León Portilla, and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. Azteca Mexica. Barcelona: Lunwerg Editores, 1992. page number: color plate 32, p. 157 url: Sabau García, María Luisa. México en el mundo de las colecciones de arte. México: D.R. Primera, 1994. page number: Vol 1: pt. 2., pp. 179-243 url: Fields, Virginia M., and Victor Zamudio-Taylor. The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001. page number: cat. no. 161, fig. 71, p. 103; p. 413 url: Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo, and Felipe R. Solís Olguín. Aztecs. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2002. page number: cat.no. 107, p.185 url: Avehanosa, Teresa, Arqueología mexicana. (March 2003). page number: url: Solís Olguín, Felipe R. The Aztec Empire. New York, N.Y.: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2004. page number: Cat. No. 254, p. 255 url: Katzew, Ilona, William B. Taylor, and Luisa Elena Alcalá. Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. 2011. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.555/1949.555_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.555/1949.555_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.555/1949.555_full.tif