id:			110790
accession number:	1929.320
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.320
updated:		2025-05-01 11:03:30.818000

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
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creation date:			by 1928
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1928
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of the Gilpin Players of Karamu House
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culture:	Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mangbetu-style maker
technique:	wood
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Furniture and woodwork
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CREATORS

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measurements: Diameter: 39.1 cm (15 3/8 in.); Overall: 28.6 cm (11 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		African Art
	opening date:   1960-03-01T05:00:00
	<i>African Art</i>. 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
	<i>Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Cleveland, OH, Karamu House: Arfican Art, March 1-May 30, 1960.', 'opening_date': '1960-03-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA 1987:  Comfortably Seated, November 11-February 15, 1987, no cat.', 'opening_date': '1987-11-11T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA 1991:  Object Lessons:  Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, June 7-September 8, 1991.', 'opening_date': '1991-06-07T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Queen (name unrecorded)
	date: until 1928
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <ul><li><!--block-->Boger, Ann C. et al. <em>Paul B. Travis Africa 1927-1928</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. PP. 32–35, 47.&nbsp;</li><li><!--block-->Illustrated in 1928 Travis photograph p. 34</li></ul>
			
			
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	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: 	
			
			* <ul><li><!--block-->Boger, Ann C. et al. <em>Paul B. Travis Africa 1927-1928</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. PP. 32–35, 47.&nbsp;</li><li><!--block-->It appears on a checklist of "African Material" circa 1928 as one of "3 carved stools used by Ekibondis wives. Mangbettu, Ekibondis Village" Archives of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.</li></ul><div><!--block--><br></div>
			
			
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	The African Art Sponsors and the Gilpin Players
	date: 1928
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			* <div><!--block-->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. <em>Paul Travis 1891-1975</em>. Cleveland Artists Foundation, 2001.</div>
			
			
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift
	date: 1929–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Berzock, Kathleen Bickford, and Christa Clarke. 2011. <em>Representing Africa in American Art Museums : A Century of Collecting and Display</em>. Seattle: University of Washington Press, p. 107, fig. 5.3.
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	Boger, Ann C. et al. Paul B. Travis Africa 1927-1928. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. p. 35.
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	Wixom, WIlliam D. "African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>African Arts</em>. 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. <em>Fragments of the Invisible: The René and Odette Delenne Collection of Congo Sculpture.</em> Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of art ; Milan : 5 Continents Editions, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 107
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	Petridis, Constantine. "A World of Great Art for Everyone." In <em>Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display</em>. 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
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IMAGES

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