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Mask from Gabon Two Chiwara c. late 19th early 20th centuries, Art Institute of Chicago.Female (left) and male, vertical styles. Most African sculpture from regions south of the Sahara was historically made of wood and other organic materials that have not survived from earlier than a few centuries ago, while older pottery figures are found from a number of areas.
Zabriskie Point is a part of the Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California, United States, noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago—long before Death Valley came into existence.
Bird ca. 1937, carved limestone, gift from Margaret Z. Robson. Edmondson was given a one-man show of 12 sculptures, the first by an African American artist to be presented by Museum of Modern Art from October 20 to December 1, 1937 in a temporary alcove space the Museum had at Rockefeller Center.
In 1859, when Edmonia Lewis was about 15 years old, her brother Samuel and abolitionists sent her to Oberlin, Ohio, where she attended the secondary Oberlin Academy Preparatory School for the full, three-year course, [19] before entering Oberlin Collegiate Institute (since 1866, Oberlin College), [20] one of the first U.S. higher-learning institutions to admit women and people of differing ...
This category is for articles about African-American individuals who are notable because of their sculpture. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American sculptors . It includes sculptors that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
John Brown and African-American child Enslaved African Americans: John Brown Farm State Historic Site, North Elba, NY: Joseph Pollia: 1935 The adult is John Brown. [2] Emancipation: Three slaves Harriet Tubman Park, Boston, MA: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller: 1913; cast in bronze 1999 [3] El Hombre Redimido: Ponce, Puerto Rico: Victor M. Cott 1956
Rock art found in southeastern Venezuela may have come from a previously unknown culture. Researchers believe that the roughly 4,000-year-old art signifies a central dispersion point from which ...
Traditional art describes the most popular and studied forms of African art typically found in museum collections. Wooden masks, which might either be of human, animal or legendary creatures, are one of the most commonly found forms of art in Western Africa. In their original contexts, ceremonial masks are used for celebrations, initiations ...