"Sculpture and Cosmology in Ancient Guerrero" Exhibition

Throckmorton Fine Art

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The famed British sculptor, Henry Moore, collected little-known stone figures from pre-Columbian Mexico, placing them on his tables and windowsills. He said, in fact, that these figures had a significant influence on his own work. The figures are from a provincial culture called Mezcala. Their highly-stylized form has led them to be compared to Cycladic figures. Moore was not alone in collecting Mezcala—here in New York the enigmatic figures were paired with abstract-expressionist paintings in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. It was an era when aesthetic tastes were expansive. Throckmorton Fine Art presents a large assemblage of Mezcala figures, temples, and masks, all laboriously carved in hard stone. These works of ancient art are not only the legacy of an over-looked, pre-Columbian culture, but also of an earlier generation of art patrons and collectors, whose broad-minded tastes also bequeathed us Mark Rothko and Franz Kline.

[Image: Unknown "Mezcala standing figure" Siderite 34.4 inches tall]

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from May 15, 2008 to July 03, 2008
Exhibition Hours: 11am-5pm, Closed on Sunday.

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