The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 26, 2024
Hen
1900s
(s) of the Igbesanmwan (wood and ivory carvers)
Overall: 47.6 cm (18 3/4 in.)
Gift of Katherine C. White 1973.221
Location: 108A Sub-Saharan
Description
The interlacing pattern on the base of this sculpture can be seen in Benin Kingdom works in materials from wood to ivory to metal.- 1900sCommissioned from the Igbesanmwan, Benin Kingdomno earlier than 1961(Robert L. Stolper gallery, New York City)by at least 1962Katherine C. White [1929-1980], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1973–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHProvenance Footnotes1 • Photo negative in curatorial file with reference date 1/1/1962 • Published in African Tribal Images (CMA 1968) as cat. No. 1502 Acquired as gift at December 28, 1973 meeting Acquisition publicized in CMA Bulletin Feb 1974 “Year in Review 1973” (cat. #13, repr. p. 71)
- "The Year in Review for 1968." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31-78. Reproduced: p. 71, cat. 13; mentioned: p. 73, cat. 13 www.jstor.orgFagg, William. African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968. Reproduced: cat. 150Broudy, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Youngblood. Icon and Symbol : The Cult of the Ancestor in African Art. Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art/Museum, 1975Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. “Art from the Benin Kingdom.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 34-35. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 34-35.Digital Benin, Markk Museum Am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Kunste der Welt, (Last Updated: 2021-02-13) ID 147489 digitalbenin.org
- Icon and symbol : The cult of the ancestor in African art. Cranbrook Academy of Art/Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (May 30–July 20, 1975)Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10 – September 1, 1968)
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