id: 127481
accession number: 1950.161
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Eccentric Flint, 600–900. Guatemala, Quirigua, Maya style (250-900). Chipped flint; overall: 34.6 x 19.3 cm (13 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1950.161
title: Eccentric Flint
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creation date: 600–900
creation date earliest: 600
creation date latest: 900
current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Guatemala, Quirigua, Maya style (250-900)
technique: chipped flint
department: Art of the Americas
collection: AA - Mesoamerica
type: Stone
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 34.6 x 19.3 cm (13 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art
opening date: 1986-05-17T04:00:00
The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (May 17-August 24, 1986); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 8-December 14, 1986).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'An Exhibition of Pre- Columbian Art. The Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA and the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (January 15- February 10, 1940).', 'opening_date': '1940-01-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Blood of Kings: A New Interpretation of Maya Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 8-December 14, 1986); The Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX (May 17-August 14, 1986).', 'opening_date': '1986-05-17T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Don F. Dickson
date: -1936
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Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Simkhovitch
date: 1936-1948
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Vladimir Gregorievitch Simkhovitch (1874-1959), New York, NY
date: 1948-
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John Wise, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: -1950
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1950-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art Picture Book
page number: 231
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Whitaker, Irwin. Crafts and Craftsmen. Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown, 1967.
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International Congress of Americanists, Rudolf Grossmann, and Gustav Wilhelm Otto Antze. Verhandlung des XXIV. Internationalen amerikanistenkongresses, Hamburg, 7. bis 13. september 1930. Nendeln/Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1968.
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The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.
page number: N3872
url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/13250/rec/1
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. An Exhibition of Pre-Columbian Art. Cambridge, Mass: William Hayes Fogg art museum, Harvard University, 1940.
page number: cat. no.5, p. 17
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Kelemen, Pál. Medieval American Art: A Survey in Two Volumes. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943.
page number: p. 21, pl. 256d
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Morley, Sylvanus Griswold. The Ancient Maya. Stanford Cal: Stanford University Press, 1946.
page number: p. 440
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Foote, H. (1951). Four Pre-Columbian Ornaments. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 38(3).
page number: pp. 58, 62-3
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141698
"Art and Archeology at The Cleveland Museum of Art." Archaeology. (Winter, 1953.).
page number: p. 202
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Covarrubias, Miguel. Indian Art of Mexico and Central America. New York: Knopf, 1957.
page number: pl. LIII (Left)
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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. 373
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n70
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. 294
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n318
Alsop, Joseph. "Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art." Art In America. (May - June 1966).
page number: p. 76
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967.
page number: p. 294
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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. 294
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n318
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. 398
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n418
Robicsek, Francis. The Smoking Gods: Tobacco in Maya Art, History, and Religion. 1978.
page number: p. 76, fig. 79D
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Schele, Linda, Mary Ellen Miller, and Justin Kerr. The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art. New York: G. Braziller, 1986.
page number: Pl. 25, pp. 78, 83, 101
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Lucena Salmoral, Manuel. América 1492: retrato de un continente hace quinientos años. Madrid: Anaya, 1990.
page number: p. 216
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Fasquelle, Ricardo Agurica. Mayan Artistry Unearthed. National Geographic Magazine. (September, 1991).
page number: p. 102
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Palenque Round Table, Merle Greene Robertson, Martha J. Macri, and Jan McHargue. Eighth Palenque Round Table, 1993. San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, 1996.
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Bradburne, James M., Annette Weber, and James Clifton. Blut: Kunst, Macht, Politik, Pathologie. München: Prestel, 2001.
page number: fig. 5
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Keoke, Emory Dean, and Kay Marie Porterfield. Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World: 15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations. New York, NY: Facts on File, 2002.
page number: p. 109
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Bradburne, James M., and James Clifton. Blood: art, power, politics, and pathology. Munich: Prestel, 2002.
page number: p. 44, fig. 5
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Summers, David. Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism. London: Phaidon Press, 2003.
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Miller, Mary Ellen, and Megan Eileen O'Neil. Maya art and architecture. 2014.
page number: p. 83, pl. 197, 221
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Biro, Yaëlle, Christine E. Brennan, and Christel H. Force. The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York: Defining Taste from Antiquities to the Avant-Garde. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.
page number: Mentioned: p. 306; Reproduced: p. 310, fig. 6.9
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