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Jul 20, 2009

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.)

Gift of Katherine C. White 1974.186

Location

not on view

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This work has a paper label indicating it was exhibited in the 1857 Art Treasures of Great Britain in Manchester, England.

Provenance

by at least 1857

John Allan Rolls (1837–1912) ¹

(Mathias Komor, New York)

by at least May 26, 1961–1974

Katherine Merkel ²

1974–

Cleveland Museum of Art by gift from the above

Provenance Footnotes

¹"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

²photograph 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

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. Mentioned: p. 11, p. 46, cat. no. 82

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 412 archive.org

Exhibition history

Manchester, England, 1853: "Manchester Art Treasures" (per exhibition sticker affixed to back of figure).

Kansas City, Nelson Gallery, 1962: "Imagination of Primitive Man," cat. no. 81

CMA 1968: "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection," cat. no. 224, repr.

CMA 1975: "Year in Review 1974," CMA Bulletin LXII (March, 1975), p. 98, no. 40.

Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).

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