id: 115160
accession number: 1935.307
share license status: CC0
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updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:27.339000
Head of a Hobbyhorse (korèdugaso), late 1800s–early 1900s. Africa, West Africa, Mali, Bamana blacksmith. Wood and iron; overall: 14 x 13.8 x 40.8 cm (5 1/2 x 5 7/16 x 16 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Albert Ford Memorial Fund 1935.307
title: Head of a Hobbyhorse (korèdugaso)
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creation date: late 1800s–early 1900s
creation date earliest: 1875
creation date latest: 1925
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creditline: James Albert Ford Memorial Fund
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culture: Africa, West Africa, Mali, Bamana blacksmith
technique: Wood and iron
department: African Art
collection: African Art
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 14 x 13.8 x 40.8 cm (5 1/2 x 5 7/16 x 16 1/16 in.)
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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: Exhibition of the Month: Design in Sculpture
opening date: 1946-12-31T05:00:00
Exhibition of the Month: Design in Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 31, 1946-February 10, 1947).
title: Primitive to Contemporary Sculpture
opening date: 1956-09-06T04:00:00
Primitive to Contemporary Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 6-October 31, 1956).
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 Language of Beauty in African Art
opening date: 2022-04-03T04:00:00
The Language of Beauty in African Art. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (April 3-July 31, 2022) https://kimbellart.org/exhibition/language-beauty-african-art; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (November 20, 2022-February 27, 2023) https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9344/the-language-of-beauty-in-african-art.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1935-1936: African Negro Art, cat. no. 10, repr. pl. 10, (also to CMA 9/27 - 10/27, 1935), and tour.', 'opening_date': '1927-09-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Flint, MI, Flint Institute of Arts, 1941: Art Marches On!, November 14-December 31, 1941, cat. no. 43, repr.', 'opening_date': '1941-11-14T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, 1959: The African Image, cat. no. 25, repr. p. 30.', 'opening_date': '1959-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'NY: Museum of Primitive Art, 1960: Bambara Sculpture from the Western Sudan, cat. no. 53, repr. pl. 37.', 'opening_date': '1960-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 2/1/00 - 9/3/00, exh. cat. no. 18, p. 68.', 'opening_date': '2000-02-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Louis Carré, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: by 1935
footnotes:
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White sticker marked "Louis Carré No. 14" on interior of object neck; white sticker marked "imported from France"
citations:
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1935-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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. 31; Reproduced pl. 10
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Flint Institute of Arts. Art Marches on!: The Opening and Dedicating Exhibition of the New Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, November 14-December 13, 1941. Flint, Mich: The Institute, 1941.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 25
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Radin, Paul, and James Johnson Sweeney. African Folktales & Sculpture. New York: Pantheon Books, 1952.
page number: Mentioned p. 343; Reproduced pl. 36
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Radin, Paul, and James Johnson Sweeney. African Folktales & Sculpture. New York: Pantheon Books, 1952.
page number: Mentioned: p. 343; Reproduced: pl. 36
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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. 385
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. 10, no. 25
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New York (N.Y.), and Robert Goldwater. Bambara Sculpture from the Western Sudan. New York: distributed by University Publishers, 1960.
page number: Mentioned p. 20; Reproduced p. 33, pl. 37
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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. 302
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n326
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. 302
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n326
Sweeney, James Johnson. African Sculpture. [Princeton, N.J.]: Princeton University Press, 1970.
page number: Mentioned: p. 186; Reproduced: pl. 36
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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. 410
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n430
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. 95, no. 57
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Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: p. 12; cat. 4, p. 38 - 39
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Petridis, Constantine, "Celebrating Bamanaya", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 02, February 2006
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 10-11
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-02/page/10
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. 111-112; Reproduced: p. 112, fig. 5.6
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Rondeau, James, Constantijn Petridis, Yaëlle Biro, Herbert M. Cole, Kassim Kone, Babatunde Lawal, Wilfried Van Damme, and Susan Mullin Vogel. The language of beauty in African art. 2022.
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IMAGES
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