id: 128187 accession number: 1951.179 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.179 updated: 2022-01-04 15:41:58.103000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: Mexico, Guerrero, Olmec, 1200-300 BC technique: stone department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 26.3 x 20 x 21.3 cm (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership opening date: 1995-12-16T05:00:00 The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership. Princeton University Art Museum (organizer) (December 16, 1995-March 3, 1996); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (April 7-June 9, 1996). --- 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.

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) --- 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 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1951 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: An observant traveler discovered the left knee and hand fragment, orginally missing and now reunited. digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Americas: Picture Book No. 2. 1946. page number: p. 27 url: "Art and Archeology at The Cleveland Museum of Art." Archeology (Winter 1953). page number: url: Milliken, William M. "A Missing Fragment Recovered." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no. 3 (1957) page number: pp. 46-8 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142196 "Archeological News" Archeology 10 no. 2, (Summer 1957). page number: p. 144 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. 357 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n68 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. 290 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n314 Alsop, Joseph. "Les Chefs-d'Oeuvre de Premiere Importance du Second Musee des Etats-Unis."Connaissance no. 172 (Juin 1966). page number: pp. 55-62 url: Alsop, Joseph. "Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art,” Art In America (May - June 1966). page number: p. 34 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. 290 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n314 Spaeth, Eloise. American Art Museums: An Introduction to Looking. New York, Evanston: Harper et Row, 1976. page number: pp. 19-21 url: 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. 392 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n412 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n20 Coe, Michael D. The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership. Princeton, N.J.: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1996. page number: Cat. No. 14, p. 144 url: Taube, Karl Andreas. Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Estados Unidos: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2004. page number: fig. 30, p. 61 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.179/1951.179_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.179/1951.179_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.179/1951.179_full.tif