Female Figure with Geometric Face and Body Paint

-200·Terracotta and pigmented slip·44.8 × 20 × 8.7 cm (17 5/8 × 7 7/8 × 3 7/16 in.)

Frederick W. Renshaw Acquisition Fund; purchased with funds provided by Cynthia and Terry E. Perucca, Jamee and Marshall Field, and Helen and Sam Zell; Edward Johnson, Grant J. Pick Purchase, and Henry Horner Straus Memorial funds; purchased with funds provided by Lynn and Allen Turner; African and Amerindian Curator’s Discretionary Fund

Catalogue

Year: -200
Medium: Terracotta and pigmented slip
Dimensions: 44.8 × 20 × 8.7 cm (17 5/8 × 7 7/8 × 3 7/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Chupícuaro

Artist

Chupícuaro

Ceramics

Chupícuaro is an important prehispanic archeological site in what is now Guanajuato, Mexico, from the late preclassical or formative period. The culture that takes its name from the site dates to 400 BC to 200 AD, or alternatively 500 BC to 300 AD, although some academics suggest an origin as early as 800 BC.

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