Inscriptionary Stone
The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Iterate Peoples of the World, The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, 1962, no. 231.
The Art of Ancient and Modern Latin America: Selections from Public and Private Collections in the United States, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, May 10-June 16, 1968, no. 117.
Maya: The Exhibition. The Great Jaguar Rises,” Union Station at Kansas City, Missouri, December 1, 2022 – March 31, 2023.
With Aaron Furman Gallery, New York;
Purchased from Furman by Heeremaneck Galleries, New York, by January 1961 [1];
Purchased from Heeramaneck Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas Ciy, MO, 1961.
NOTES:
[1] A handwritten note in the Nelson-Atkins Registration file, signed "j.f.e" and dated March 19, 1962, reads: "In Feb. 62, while Ted Coe was in New York, Aaron Furman (dealer) told Ted that he had sold the Maya lintel (WRNG 61-15) to Heeremaneck. Furman also said the lintel was from the site (village?) of Los Olvidados, on the border of Chiapas."
Ralph T. Coe, The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Iterate Peoples of the World. The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin 4, no. 1 (Kansas City, Mo.: University Trustees, 1962), 140-42, (repro.).
Marjorie Smith Zengal, et al., The Art of Ancient and Modern Latin America: Selections from Public and Private Collections in the United States, exh. cat. (New Orleans: Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 1968).
Clemency Coggins, “Displaced Mayan Sculpture,” Estudios de Cultura Maya 8 (1970), 22.
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), 244, (repro.).
Heinrich Berlin, Signos y Significados en las Inscripciones Mayas (Guatemala, C.A.: Instituto Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural de Guatemala, 1977), 176-180.
Karl Herbert Mayer, Maya Monuments: Sculptures of Unknown Provenance in the United States, trans. Sandra L. Brizée (Ramona, Ca.: Acoma Books, 1980), 32-33, plates 39-40, (repro.).
