Kneeling Woman with Children | Yale University Art Gallery

100 B.C.–A.D.250

Medium: Ceramic with pigment
Dimensions: 8 11/16 × 6 5/16 × 3 1/16 in. (22 × 16 × 7.8 cm)
Credit Line: Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
Accession Number: 1973.88.33b
Geography: Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Nayarit, Lagunillas "C" Style
Period: Protoclassic Period
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1973 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Richard F. Townsend, ed., Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998),

Helen Pollard, "Recent Research in West Mexican Archaeology," Journal of Archeological Research 5 (1997), 345–84

Michael Kan, Clement W. Meighan, and Henry B. Nicholson, Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico: Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, 2, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989),

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 179, no. 399

Jacki Gallagher, Companions of the Dead: Tomb Sculpture from Ancient West Mexico, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 1983),

Betty Bell, ed., The Archaeology of West Mexico (Ajijic, Mexico: West Mexican Society for Advanced Study, 1974),

"Acquisitions, 1973," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974), 78

Peter T. Furst, West Mexican Art: Secular or Sacred? The Iconography of Middle American Sculpture (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973), 98–133

Hasso Von Winning and Olga Hammer, Ancecdotal Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Ethnic Arts Council of Los Angeles, 1972),

Salvador Toscano and Federico Canessi, Arte Precolombino del Occidente de Mexico (Mexico City: Dirección General de Educación Extra-Escolar y Estética, 1946),

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), sculptures

hollow kneeling

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