MJJG: art listings pg 65-100

[Raphael Saltwood]

1) pg 65 Hinckle von Vampton gazes at “an ugly, hideous, bejeweled object: a little black doll.”

2) pg 67 “A story concerning the authentication of a Rembrandt” in the New York Sun

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/27/archives/3-hartford-rembrandts-arent-his-panel-rules-basis-of-decisions.html

“In the 1920's, 900 paintings were believed to have been painted by Rembrandt. The authenticated number was reduced to 630 in 1939, to 420—including some questioned—in 1969, and is down to 360 now, according to Mr. Cunningham.”


3) pg 67 “a column describing Afro-American painting which is described by the Atonist critic as “primitive”, at best “charming” and mostly “propagandistic.” (In the Sun)

4) pg 70-71 “the lions” (in front of the New York Library) “have been taken indoors for their protection”

https://untappedcities.com/2014/03/05/the-nypl-lions-the-lives-of-patience-and-fortitude/


5) pg 71 managing editor’s scavenged cuff links with cameo (or something) of “A Knight in armor wearing the Red Cross on his breast”

More a membership totem than a work of art, I guess...at least from VvH’s pov


6) pg 76 “Papyri of Ani”
https://images.app.goo.gl/fXtJDsxSPFG8C9fE7


(repossessed by the Mu’tafikah from the British Museum where they resided* after being heinously stolen around 1888 by Wallis Budge, he only got 150 GBP for them...dirty deed done dirt cheap)
*& in fact still reside



More Mu’tafikah takings & planned takings:

7) pg 98 “a Nimba mask made of Guinea wood”
Liberated from a private collection belonging to a society woman on Park Avenue.

https://images.app.goo.gl/aaEyztfjzkbAvt9N6


8) pg 98 “Benin bronze plaque with leopard from the Linden-Museum in Stuttgart”

British Museum’s version of Benin bronze backstory

https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/british-museum-story/objects-news/benin-bronzes


9) pg 98 “...5,000 masks and figures - carried to Europe as booty from Nigeria, Gold Coast, Upper Volta and the Ivory Coast”

10) pg 98 “Seneca masks”

https://joyofmuseums.com/most-popular/most-popular-historical-objects/false-face-society-masks/

11) pg 100 (Mu’tafikah desiderata from pre-Cortesian exhibit) “the Pulque Beaker,

(https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/372 looks like Depression glass?

https://images.app.goo.gl/eJMABCPV5A83P8N7A
A little funkier

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21802/lot/67/
Looks like a Grecian urn

https://images.app.goo.gl/PPxoD4USfRbT9G576
Now that’s a pulque beaker!)


the Plumed Serpent with the controversial human face,

(https://images.app.goo.gl/htRwYUKYrUPxjXDJ6
Maybe)


some terracotta water spirits

(https://images.app.goo.gl/99uEy6WNDiVG3G8J6 )

and mosaic knife handles”

(https://www.ancient.eu/article/650/aztec-ceremonial-knife/ )



And of course “the 4 1/2 ton Olmec head”

  *    if anything, it’s a small exemplar
  *   https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/olmec-heads-of-mexico-1200-400-b-c/

12) pg 100 “The Hermit of a Chasm of the Forest done delicately on rice paper”

Here’s the museum it was supposedly on loan from:
https://museum-fuer-ostasiatische-kunst.de/Museum-of-East-Asian-Art

Here’s the museum Fuentes supposedly took it from
https://philamuseum.org

Here’s what I picture, not having found it:

https://images.app.goo.gl/VXFSoqqnHb6zfsRq8