id: 147820
accession number: 1974.186
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Male Figure, early 1800s. Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo or Vili, early 19th century. Wood, iron, and metalized glass; overall: 55.9 cm (22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White 1974.186
title: Male Figure
title in original language:
series:
series in original language:
creation date: early 1800s
creation date earliest: 1800
creation date latest: 1825
current location:
creditline: Gift of Katherine C. White
copyright:
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culture: Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo or Vili, early 19th century
technique: Wood, iron, and metalized glass
department: African Art
collection: African Art
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 55.9 cm (22 in.)
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inscriptions:
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1974
opening date: 1975-03-11T04:00:00
Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Manchester, England, 1853: "Manchester Art Treasures" (per exhibition sticker affixed to back of figure).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Kansas City, Nelson Gallery, 1962: "Imagination of Primitive Man," cat. no. 81', 'opening_date': '1962-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA 1968: "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection," cat. no. 224, repr.', 'opening_date': '1968-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA 1975: "Year in Review 1974," CMA Bulletin LXII (March, 1975), p. 98, no. 40.', 'opening_date': '1975-03-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
John Allan Rolls (1837–1912)
date: by at least 1857
footnotes:
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- "this was in the Rolls coll." written on photograph by Katherine Merkel; contained in an envelope postmarked May 26, 1961. Dallas Museum of Art John Wise Archives (photocopy in Curatorial File)
- two paper labels on object with name "John Allan Rolls;" one for 1857 Manchester Exhibition of Art Treasures
citations:
(Mathias Komor, New York)
date:
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citations:
Katherine Merkel
date: by at least May 26, 1961–1974
footnotes:
* - photograph by Katherine Merkel; contained in an envelope postmarked May 26, 1961. Dallas Museum of Art John Wise Archives (photocopy in Curatorial File)
**Katherine W. Merkel, Katherine C. White, and Katherine White Reswick (1929-1980) are the
same woman
citations:
Cleveland Museum of Art by gift from the above
date: 1974–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Fagg, William, and Cleveland Museum of Art. 1968. African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, no. 224.
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Wixom, William D. "African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art." African Arts 10, no. 3 (April 1977): 24, fig. 12.
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William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World. Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962.
page number: Mentioned: p. 11, p. 46, cat. no. 82
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. 412
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n432
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IMAGES
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