id: 110790 accession number: 1929.320 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.320 updated: 2022-10-28 21:14:49.658000 Stool, by 1928. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mangbetu-style maker. Wood; diameter: 39.1 cm (15 3/8 in.); overall: 28.6 cm (11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Gilpin Players of Karamu House 1929.320 title: Stool title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: by 1928 creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1928 current location: creditline: Gift of the Gilpin Players of Karamu House copyright: --- culture: Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mangbetu-style maker technique: wood department: African Art collection: African Art type: Furniture and woodwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 39.1 cm (15 3/8 in.); Overall: 28.6 cm (11 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: African Art opening date: 1960-03-01T05:00:00 African Art. Karamu House, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 30, 1960). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, OH, Karamu House: Arfican Art, March 1-May 30, 1960.
CMA 1987: Comfortably Seated, November 11-February 15, 1987, no cat.
CMA 1991: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, June 7-September 8, 1991. --- PROVENANCE Queen (name unrecorded) date: until 1928 footnotes: * Boger, Ann C. et al. Paul B. Travis Africa 1927-1928. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. PP. 32–35, 47.Illustrated in 1928 Travis photograph p. 34 citations: The African Art Sponsors and the Gilpin Players date: 1928 footnotes: * 12/3/1928 letter to the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History from Hazel Mountain Walker (Gilpin Players, president) and Harry E. Davis (African Art Sponsors, president) reproduced on p. 54 of Adams, Henry et al. Paul Travis 1891-1975. Cleveland Artists Foundation, 2001. citations: Acquired by Paul Travis on behalf of the African Art Sponsors and the Gilpin Players in Ekibondo, Democratic Republic of the Congo (then-Belgian Congo) date: 1928 footnotes: * Boger, Ann C. et al. Paul B. Travis Africa 1927-1928. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. PP. 32–35, 47. citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift date: 1929– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Such stools were highly prized by their female owners. Sculpted by master artists with widespread reputations, they were often "signed" with a deeply cut mark on the base. This groove was then filled with red camwood as an expression of blessings and good wishes for the stool's owner. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wixom, WIlliam D. "African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art." African Arts. 10, no. 3. (April 1977) 16-25. page number: Mentioned: p. 16; p. 18, fig. 3 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3335296 Petridis, Constantijn, et al. Fragments of the Invisible: The René and Odette Delenne Collection of Congo Sculpture. Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of art ; Milan : 5 Continents Editions, 2013. page number: Mentioned: p. 107 url: Petridis, Constantine. "A World of Great Art for Everyone." In Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display. Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Christa Clarke, 104-121. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. page number: Mentioned: p. 106; reproduced: p. 107, figs. 5.2, 5.3 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.320/1929.320_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.320/1929.320_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.320/1929.320_full.tif