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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
Standing Male Figure
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Michael McKelvey.
ClassificationsArt of the Americas

Standing Male Figure

Place CreatedCosta Rica, North America
CultureEarly Greater Nicoya - Greater Nicoya
PeriodPeriod IV
Date300 BCE-500 CE
MediumCeramic
Credit LineGift of Cora W. and Laurence C. Witten II
Dimensions4 3/8 x 3 3/8 x 2 in. (11.1 x 8.6 x 5.1 cm)
Object number1992.015.106
Exhibition HistoryFive Continents-Nine Millennia, Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, International Concourse E, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1995 - November 1996
The Art of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Michael C. Carlos Museum, November 8, 1997 - January 4, 1998
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 13, 2002 - June 2012
Published ReferencesRebecca Stone-Miller, Seeing With New Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002), 76, figure 135.
ProvenanceEx coll. Laurence (1926-1995) and Cora Witten, United States, possibly purchased from Enrique Vargas (Enrique Vargas Alfaro) (1915-2008), San Jose, Costa Rica, ca. 1960-1985.
Status
Not on view
Collections
  • Art of the Americas