id:			147820
accession number:	1974.186
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.186
updated:		2025-08-07 23:19:07.884000

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
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creation date:			early 1800s
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1825
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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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measurements: Overall: 55.9 cm (22 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1974
	opening date:   1975-03-11T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1974</i>. 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
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			* <ul><li><!--block-->"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)</li><li><!--block-->two paper labels on object with name "John Allan Rolls;" one for 1857 Manchester Exhibition of Art Treasures</li></ul>
			
			
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	(Mathias Komor, New York)
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	Katherine Merkel
	date: by at least May 26, 1961–1974
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			* <ul><li><!--block-->photograph by Katherine Merkel; contained in an envelope postmarked May 26, 1961. Dallas Museum of Art John Wise Archives (photocopy in Curatorial File)</li></ul><div><!--block-->**Katherine W. Merkel, Katherine C. White, and Katherine White Reswick (1929-1980) are the<br>same woman</div><div><!--block--><br></div>
			
			
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	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. <em>African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection</em>. 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.<em> The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World</em>. Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 11, p. 46, cat. no. 82
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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. 412
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n432

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IMAGES

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