id: 115157 accession number: 1935.304 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1935.304 updated: 2024-08-08 15:13:19.200000 Mask (Bwoom), mid- to late 1800s. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kuba-style carver. Wood and paint; overall: 43.3 x 31.2 x 28.3 cm (17 1/16 x 12 5/16 x 11 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Albert Ford Memorial Fund 1935.304 title: Mask (Bwoom) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: mid- to late 1800s creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1900 current location: 108A Sub-Saharan creditline: James Albert Ford Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kuba-style carver technique: Wood and paint department: African Art collection: African Art type: Mask find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 43.3 x 31.2 x 28.3 cm (17 1/16 x 12 5/16 x 11 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: The Mask opening date: 1951-10-27T05:00:00 The Mask. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1951-January 14, 1952). title: The Imagination of Primitive Man opening date: 1962-01-18T05:00:00 The Imagination of Primitive Man. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (organizer) (January 18-February 25, 1962). title: Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art opening date: 2000-02-01T00:00:00 Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (February 1-September 3, 2000). title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1935: "African Negro Art," cat. no. 463, not reproduced', 'opening_date': '1935-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': '(also to CMA 9/27 - 10/27, 1935),', 'opening_date': '1927-09-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, February 1 - 22, 1959: "The African Image,"cat. no. 164, repr. p. 30.', 'opening_date': '1959-02-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Kansas City, MO, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1/18 - 2/25/1962: "The Imagination of Primitive Man, no. 83."', 'opening_date': '1962-02-25T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art" 2/1/00 - 9/3/00', 'opening_date': '2000-02-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 44, p. 118, color repr. p. 55.', 'opening_date': '2006-06-09T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Charles Ratton Gallery, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1935 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1935– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art; London: Scala Publishers Ltd, 2012. pg. 238-9. page number: url: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), and James Johnson Sweeney. African Negro Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1935. page number: Mentioned: p. 52, no. 463 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 387 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n72 Plass, Margaret. The African Image: A New Selection of Tribal Art : the Toledo Museum of Art ... February 1 Through 22, 1959 : Introduction and Catalogue. Toledo, Ohio: The Museum, 1959. page number: Reproduced: p. 30, no. 164 url: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World. Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962. page number: Mentioned: p. 11, 46, cat. no. 83 url: Robbins, Warren M. African Art in American Collections = L'art Africain Dans Les Collections Americaines. New York : F. A. Praeger, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 211, pl. 300 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 303 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n327 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 303 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n327 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 412 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n432 Connell, Timothy C., and Jackson J. Spielvogel. World Art Transparencies. Cincinnati: West Educational Pub., 1998. page number: Mentioned: p. 34; Reproduced no. 42 url: Webb, Virginia-Lee, and Walker Evans. Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Reproduced: p. 24, fig. 15; Reproduced: p. 26, fig. 18 url: Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. page number: Reproduced: cat. 35, p. 100 - 101 url: Petridis, Constantine, "African Art Revisited", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 43 no. 09, November 2003 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2003-09/page/n3 Robbins, Warren M.. African sculpture. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub., 2005. page number: Reproduced: p. 211, pl. 300 url: Buser, Thomas. Experiencing Art Around Us. Australia: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 433, fig. 17-22 url: Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 55, no. 44 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. 112; Reproduced: p. 113, fig. 5.7 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1935.304/1935.304_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1935.304/1935.304_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1935.304/1935.304_full.tif