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Relief
Relief

Relief

Artist Unknown
Datecirca 550–800
MediumLimestone, incised
Dimensions20 7/8 x 35 5/8 x 2 1/4 in. (53.0 x 90.5 x 5.7 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Cedric Marks
Object numberG.70.1.1
On View
Not on view
Published ReferencesExhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 6, illus. (b-w) 7.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 11, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1971), listed 66, illus. (b-w) 71.

Stolper Gallery Catalogue.

"La Chronique des Arts," Supplement to Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1255, p. 71.

Karl Herbert Meyer, Maya Monuments: Sculptures of Unknown Provenances in the United States, Vol. 2 (Ramono, CA: Acoma Books, 1980), cat. no. 52, illus. pl. 6.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 89.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 58.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection,” October 1970, 6, illus. (b-w) 7. Object Rights Statement

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