Collecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940

Andrew D. Turner is a senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute. Trained as an archaeologist and art historian, Turner’s work focuses on ancient Mesoamerican material culture, religion, and symbolism. He has held positions at Yale University and the University of Cambridge; at Getty he is the project lead for the Pre-Hispanic Art Provenance Initiative, which traces the movement of looted pre-Hispanic art through the international art market.Megan E. O'Neil is assistant professor of art history at Emory University and faculty curator at the Carlos Museum. Her publications address the ancient Maya and histories of collecting and exhibiting Mesoamerican art.

• Introduction: The Art of Ancient Mesoamerica, Collections Forged before1940 - Mary E. MillerFrom the Market to the Museum: Nineteenth-Century Circulation, Display,and Scholarly Study of Mesoamerican Artifacts in Italy and Beyond - DavideDomenici“An Idol, a Human Crane, an Incrusted Frilly Blue Mosaic Work Once Madefor Magic Oracles”: Curious Things from Mexico in Early GermanCollections, 1525–1835 - Viola KönigCiriaco González Carvajal and Archaeological Collectionism in LateBourbon New Spain - Leonardo López LujánThe Objects of History and the History of Objects - Matthew H. RobbThe Chapultepec Castle Chimalli: A Habsburg-Repatriated Aztec Ocelot-Hide Shield - Laura Filloy Nadal and María Olvido Moreno GuzmánCollections and Recollections of “the Greatest of Nineteenth-Century DonQuixotes”: Maximilian I’s Imperial Legacy in the Yale Peabody Museum -Brooke LoukkalaBeyond the Bazaar: The Making of the Archaeological Collection at theNational Museum of Mexico - Miruna AchimNational Guardians and Imperial Contenders: The Development ofMexico’s Archaeological Inspectorate - Adam T. SellenLost at the Exposition: The Missing Collection of the First National Museumof Guatemala - Oswaldo Chinchilla MazariegosCasting for Quirigua: Edgar L. Hewett, the School of American Archaeologyand Ancient American Research, 1907–1916 - Khristaan D. VillelaMaya on the Mersey: Thomas Gann and Collecting in Early Twentieth-Century Britain - Andrew D. Turner“American Antiquities for an American Museum”: Frederick Church, LuigiPetich, and the Founding Decades of the Metropolitan Museum of Art(1870–1914) - Joanne PillsburyWorldCollecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940: A New World of Latin American AntiquitiesImperialist Ambitions, Black Gold, and Stone Figures: Collecting HuastecSculptures before 1940 - Kim N. RichterBranding West Mexico: How Collectors and Dealers Reshaped theArchaeological Discourse - Christopher S. BeekmanChanging Geographies of the Mesoamerican Antiquities Market circa 1940:Pierre Matisse and Earl Stendahl - Megan E. O’NeilAfterword: Object Amnesia and the Archive - Megan E. O’Neil