Kneeling Figure

Cleveland Museum of Art

Kneeling Figure

Date
c. 1200–600 BCE
Medium
stone
Culture
Mexico, Guerrero, Olmec
Department
Art of the Americas
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
128187

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Outside of the Maya, Olmec sculptures of humans have a naturalism unknown in other Mesoamerican artistic traditions. On this finely carved figure, the musculature of the arms, torso, and legs is carefully depicted, and even the fingernails and toenails and are shown. An observant traveler discovered the left knee and hand fragment, orginally missing and now reunited.

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Credit line
The Norweb Collection
Provenance
?-1951: Emery May Holden Norweb [1895-1984] and Raymond Henry Norweb [1894-1983], Cleveland OH, 1951, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1951: The Cleveland Museum of Art

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