Seated Figure
- L14
Kansas City Collects, The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, January 22-February 28, 1965, no. 192d.
Painted Worlds: Color and Culture in Mesoamerican Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 1, 2025-February 8, 2026.
Possibly with Everett Rassiga, Inc., New York, by July 1963 [1];
Possibly purchased from Rassiga by Peter I. Hirsch (1917-2003), Kansas City, MO and Santa Fe, NM, 1963-November 1968 [2];
His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1968.
NOTES:
[1] In a letter to Everett Rassiga dated July 20, 1963, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files, Frank Crabtree, Assistant Curator of Native Arts, discusses several objects Rassiga had on offer at the time. He wrote, “I think it is wonderful that Peter bought the Guaymail [sic] figure.” Although not definitive, it is likely the Guaymil figure mentioned in this letter is the same figure Hirsch gave to the Nelson-Atkins five years later.
[2] Based on the object description in the exhibition catalogue, this object is likely the same as Female Seated Statuette lent by Peter I. Hirsch to the exhibition Kansas City Collects at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, January 22-February 28, 1965, no. 192d. The figure is not illustrated in the catalogue. It was on loan from Hirsch to the Nelson-Atkins from July 24, 1967 until its gift in 1968.
