Stylized Human Figure | Yale University Art Gallery

300 B.C.–A.D. 300

Medium: Micaceous rock, gray
Dimensions: 11 1/4 in. (28.5 cm)
Credit Line: Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
Accession Number: 1973.88.17
Geography: Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Mezcala, Guerrero
Period: Late Formative to Early Classic Period
Classification: Tools and Equipment
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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

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 89, 254, no. 160, fig. 85

"Acquisitions, 1973," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974), 77

Richard Brettell, "Mezcala Stone Sculpture in the Olsen Collection," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974), 16, fig. 2

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Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), sculptures

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