id: 136813 accession number: 1961.31 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.31 updated: 2023-01-11 01:02:15.833000 Head Fragment, c. 900–300 BC. Mexico, Olmec, 1200-300 BC. Jadeite; overall: 7.4 x 6.2 x 5 cm (2 15/16 x 2 7/16 x 1 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1961.31 title: Head Fragment title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 900–300 BC creation date earliest: -900 creation date latest: -300 current location: 233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Mexico, Olmec, 1200-300 BC technique: jadeite department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Jade find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 7.4 x 6.2 x 5 cm (2 15/16 x 2 7/16 x 1 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1961) opening date: 1961-11-01T04:00:00 Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: The Art of the Olmec Civilization opening date: 1996-06-30T04:00:00 The Art of the Olmec Civilization. National Gallery of Art (organizer) (June 30-October 20, 1996). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Pre-Columbian Art: The Native Art of America Before the Conquest, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL (January 10 - February 1,1953). * Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (September 26, 2010- January 9, 2011); The Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 19- May 30, 2011). --- PROVENANCE (John Wise, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1961 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1961- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: In ancient Mesoamerica, jade was more valuable than gold. digital description: wall description: This sensual head fragment may come from a seated or standing figure like those shown nearby, though much larger. The carving is exceptionally fine, from the slight under-eye puffiness to the delineation of the fleshy lips and the teeth. The profile face of supernatural being is incised just in front of each ear, perhaps indicating that the subject had special power. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Society of the Four Arts (Palm Beach, Fla.), and Gordon F. Ekholm. Pre-Columbian Art, the Native Art of America Before the Conquest: Jan. 10-Feb. 1, 1953. Palm Beach: Society of the Four Arts, 1952. page number: Cat. No. 9 url: Hawley, Henry H. "An Olmec Jade Head." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 8 (1961). page number: pp. 212-215 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142469 Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review 1961." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 9 (1961). page number: p. 238, no. 16 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142473 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 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 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. 393 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n413 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 6 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n21 Benson, Elizabeth P., Beatriz de la Fuente, and Marcia Castro-Leal Espino. Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1996. page number: p. 221, Cat. No. 59 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.31/1961.31_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.31/1961.31_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.31/1961.31_full.tif