id: 127481 accession number: 1950.161 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.161 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:14.836000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 600–900 creation date earliest: 600 creation date latest: 900 current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Guatemala, Quirigua, Maya style (250-900) technique: chipped flint department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Stone find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 34.6 x 19.3 cm (13 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE Don F. Dickson date: -1936 footnotes: citations: Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Simkhovitch date: 1936-1948 footnotes: citations: Vladimir Gregorievitch Simkhovitch (1874-1959), New York, NY date: 1948- footnotes: citations: John Wise, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1950 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1950- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art Picture Book page number: 231 url: Whitaker, Irwin. Crafts and Craftsmen. Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown, 1967. page number: url: 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. page number: url: 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 url: Kelemen, Pál. Medieval American Art: A Survey in Two Volumes. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. page number: p. 21, pl. 256d url: Morley, Sylvanus Griswold. The Ancient Maya. Stanford Cal: Stanford University Press, 1946. page number: p. 440 url: 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 url: Covarrubias, Miguel. Indian Art of Mexico and Central America. New York: Knopf, 1957. page number: pl. LIII (Left) url: 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 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967. page number: p. 294 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. 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 url: 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 url: Lucena Salmoral, Manuel. América 1492: retrato de un continente hace quinientos años. Madrid: Anaya, 1990. page number: p. 216 url: Fasquelle, Ricardo Agurica. Mayan Artistry Unearthed. National Geographic Magazine. (September, 1991). page number: p. 102 url: 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. page number: url: Bradburne, James M., Annette Weber, and James Clifton. Blut: Kunst, Macht, Politik, Pathologie. München: Prestel, 2001. page number: fig. 5 url: 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 url: Bradburne, James M., and James Clifton. Blood: art, power, politics, and pathology. Munich: Prestel, 2002. page number: p. 44, fig. 5 url: Summers, David. Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism. London: Phaidon Press, 2003. page number: url: Miller, Mary Ellen, and Megan Eileen O'Neil. Maya art and architecture. 2014. page number: p. 83, pl. 197, 221 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.161/1950.161_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.161/1950.161_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.161/1950.161_full.tif