id:			128187
accession number:	1951.179
share license status:	CC0
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Kneeling Figure, c. 1200-600 BC. Mexico, Guerrero, Olmec, 1200-300 BC. Stone; overall: 26.3 x 20 x 21.3 cm (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1951.179

title:				Kneeling Figure
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creation date:			c. 1200-600 BC
creation date earliest:		1200
creation date latest:		600
current location:		233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline:			The Norweb Collection
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culture:	Mexico, Guerrero, Olmec, 1200-300 BC
technique:	stone
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Mesoamerica
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 26.3 x 20 x 21.3 cm (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; November 9, 1945-January 6, 1946.  "Art of the Americas." p.27, black and white repr.<br><br>Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum of Princeton University; December 16, 1995-March 3, 1996. Houston, Texas: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston; April 7, 1996- June 9, 1996.  "The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership." cat. no. 14, pg 144, color repr. (fig.1 is view of the underside)

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PROVENANCE

	Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984] and Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983], Cleveland OH, 1951, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1951
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1951
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fun fact: 
An observant traveler discovered the left knee and hand fragment, orginally missing and now reunited.

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wall description: 
Outside of the Maya, Olmec sculptures of humans have a naturalism unknown in other Mesoamerican artistic traditions. On this finely carved figure, the musculature of the arms, torso, and legs is carefully depicted, and even the fingernails and toenails and are shown.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Art of the Americas: Picture Book No. 2.</em> 1946.
	page number: 	p. 27
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	"Art and Archeology at The Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>Archeology </em>(Winter 1953).
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	Milliken, William M. "A Missing Fragment Recovered." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 44, no. 3 (1957)
	page number: 	pp. 46-8
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142196

	"Archeological News" <em>Archeology </em>10 no. 2, (Summer 1957).
	page number: 	p. 144
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 357
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n68

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 290
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n314

	Alsop, Joseph. "Les Chefs-d'Oeuvre de Premiere Importance du Second Musee des Etats-Unis."<em>Connaissance </em>no. 172 (Juin 1966).
	page number: 	pp. 55-62
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	Alsop, Joseph. "Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art,” <em>Art In America</em> (May - June 1966).
	page number: 	p. 34
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	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

	Spaeth, Eloise. <em>American Art Museums: An Introduction to Looking.</em> New York, Evanston: Harper et Row, 1976.
	page number: 	pp. 19-21
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	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

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 4
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n20

	Coe, Michael D. <em>The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership</em>. Princeton, N.J.: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1996.
	page number: 	Cat. No. 14, p. 144
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	Taube, Karl Andreas. <em>Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks. </em>Estados Unidos: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2004.
	page number: 	fig. 30, p. 61
	url:		

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