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Part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, collection includes Asian art, works on paper (drawings, prints, and photographs), European masterworks, 20th-century and contemporary art, African art and North Carolina pottery A.D. Gallery: Pembroke: Robeson: Piedmont: Art: Part of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke [1]
African art includes prehistoric and ancient art, the Islamic art of West Africa, the Christian art of East Africa, and the traditional artifacts of these, and other regions. Many African sculptures were historically made of wood and other natural materials that have not survived from earlier than a few centuries ago, although rare older ...
The different histories of museums in Europe and the United States affected the collecting and display of African art in both places. [6] European museums typically were founded as state institutions and thus their collections and displays were shaped by national interests. African art and artifacts were mostly displayed in an ethnological ...
Art of the Dogon: selections from the Lester Wunderman collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0870995071. LaGamma, Alisa (2003). Genesis: ideas of origin in African sculpture. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0300096873. Roese, Herbert E (2011). African Wood Carvings, the sculptural art of West Africa ...
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The National Museum of African Art is the Smithsonian Institution's African art museum, located on the National Mall of the United States capital. Its collections include 9,000 works of traditional and contemporary African art from both Sub-Saharan and North Africa, 300,000 photographs, and 50,000 library volumes. It was the first institution ...
Paul Guillaume (French pronunciation: [pɔl ɡijom]; 1891 in Paris – 1934 in Paris) was a French art dealer. [1] [2] [3] Dealer of Chaïm Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani, he was one of the first to organize African art exhibitions. [2]
Although comprising only 38 artifacts, the ancient Egyptian art collection at the North Carolina Museum of Art represents the major periods of ancient Egyptian history, from the Predynastic (Naqada I, 4000–3500 BCE) to the Roman (30 BCE – 642 CE) periods. The Museum's oldest artifact is a black-topped red ceramic jar handmade approximately ...