The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  by at least 1857

  John Allan Rolls (1837–1912)

  (Mathias Komor, New York)

  by at least May 26, 1961–1974

  Katherine Merkel

  1974–

  Cleveland Museum of Art by gift from the above

  Provenance Footnotes

  1 "this was in the Rolls coll." written on photograph by Katherine Merkel; contained in an envelope postmarked May 26, 1961. Dallas Museum of Art John Wise Archives (photocopy in Curatorial File)two paper labels on object with name "John Allan Rolls;" one for 1857 Manchester Exhibition of Art Treasures

  2 photograph by Katherine Merkel; contained in an envelope postmarked May 26, 1961. Dallas Museum of Art John Wise Archives (photocopy in Curatorial File)**Katherine W. Merkel, Katherine C. White, and Katherine White Reswick (1929-1980) are thesame woman
• Citations
  William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World. Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962. Mentioned: p. 11, p. 46, cat. no. 82

  The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 412 archive.org
• Exhibition History
  Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).

  CMA 1975: "Year in Review 1974," CMA Bulletin LXII (March, 1975), p. 98, no. 40.

  Manchester, England, 1853: "Manchester Art Treasures" (per exhibition sticker affixed to back of figure).

  CMA 1968: "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection," cat. no. 224, repr.

  Kansas City, Nelson Gallery, 1962: "Imagination of Primitive Man," cat. no. 81
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