Angel with a Flowering Staff
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Songs of Glory: Medieval Art from 900 to 1500, Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK, 1985, no. 5.
Abbey of St. Epvre (Evre), Toul, France; [1]
M. Gigleux, Toul, France [2];
With Paul Mallon, Paris, by 1954;
Purchased from Paul Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1954.
NOTES:
[1] According to Marilyn Stokstad, et al., “Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. XV. Kansas City, Missouri and Lawrence, Kansas,” in Gesta: The International Center for Medieval Art XVI/I (1977), 50, “the sculpture was found built into the upper wall of a private residence, 17 Rue Albert Denis, on the corner of the Rue de l’Abbaye, Faubourg Saint-Epvre, Toul, in the ruins of the Abbey of St. Epvre in Toul. Original photographs of the sculpture in situ are in the NAMA registration files and reproduced in Stokstad, 175.
[2] According to Paul Mallon, in a letter to Lawrence Sickman, Director, December 27, 1963, NAMA curatorial files.
Art Quarterly 17 (1954): 409.
“New Acquisitions,” Gallery News (December 1954).
Marilyn Stokstad, “Romanesque and Gothic Art,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 486-87, 489, (repro.), as Angel with Flowering Staff.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 64, (repro), as Angel.
Marilyn Stokstad, “An Angel from Toul,” GESTA XVI, no. 1, Essays in Honor of Sumner McKnight Crosby (1977): 173-77, 178n2, 178n6, 178n10, 178n11, 178n15, (repro.), as Angel, from Saint-Epvre, Toul.
Francine Roze, “L’Abbaye Saint-Evre de Toul au haut moyen âge,” Le Pays lorrain, no. 2 (1981): 75-76, (repro.), as Ange provenant de Saint-Èvre de Toul, au Musée de Kansas City.
Songs of Glory: Medieval Art from 900 to 1500, exh. cat. (Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma Museum of Art, 1985), 76-77.
Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 34-35, (repro.), as Angel with a Flowering Staff.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 132.
Walter Cahn, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, vol. 2, New York and New Jersey, Middle and South Atlantic States, the Midwest, Western and Pacific States (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999), 213-14, (repro.), as Relief with an angel. Abbey of Saint-Evre, Toul.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 33, 37, (repro.), as Angel with a Flowering Staff.
