id: 115163 accession number: 1935.310 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1935.310 updated: 2024-08-08 15:13:19.236000 Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu), 1800s, before 1896. Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/Kingdom, probably Kumasi, member of the goldsmiths’ guild. Gold; diameter: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1935.310 title: Disk Pendant (akrafokɔnmu) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1800s, before 1896 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1895 current location: 108C Akan & Yoruba creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante Empire/Kingdom, probably Kumasi, member of the goldsmiths’ guild technique: Gold department: African Art collection: African Art type: Jewelry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); Overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: African Textiles and Decorative Arts opening date: 1972-08-16T04:00:00 African Textiles and Decorative Arts. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 11, 1972-January 31, 1973); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (March 20-May 31, 1973); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (July 2-August 31, 1973); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 3-December 2, 1973). title: The Arts of Ghana opening date: 1977-10-11T04:00:00 The Arts of Ghana. Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (October 11-December 11, 1977); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (February 11-March 26, 1978); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (May 3-July 2, 1978). 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). title: The Power of Gold: Asante Royal Regalia from Ghana opening date: 2018-04-15T04:00:00 The Power of Gold: Asante Royal Regalia from Ghana. The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (organizer) (April 15-August 12, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1935: "African Negro Art," cat. no. 162, (also to CMA 9/27 - 10/27, 1935).', 'opening_date': '1927-09-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'NY: The Brooklyn Museum: Masterpieces of African Art, cat. no. 34.', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1972-1973: African Textiles and Decorative Arts. Also to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1973; and the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1973, cat. no. 162.', 'opening_date': '1972-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Dickson Art Center, 1977-1978: The Arts of Ghana, cat. no. 324, p. 153, repr. p. 155. Also to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 11-March 26, 1978, and the Dallas Museum of Art, May 30-July 2, 1978.', 'opening_date': '1978-02-11T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Emblems of Status, October 21, 1982-April 30, 1983.', 'opening_date': '1982-10-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Art in the Cycle of Life, September 15, 1987-March 20, 1988.', 'opening_date': '1987-09-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Elmina: Art and Trade on the West African Coast, October 14, 1992-February 28, 1993.', 'opening_date': '1992-10-14T00:00:00'} * {'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'} * {'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. 36, p. 117, color repr. p. 32.', 'opening_date': '2006-06-09T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Treasury of asantehene (King) Agyeman Prempeh I, Kumasi, Ghana date: ?-1896 footnotes: *
Exhibition Catalogue African Negro Art (1935), cat. no. 162; Original object card, 9/14/35 (CMA Curatorial File)
citations: (Charles Ratton Gallery, Paris, France via Pierre Matisse, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1935 footnotes: *
Exhibition Catalogue African Negro Art (1935), cat. no. 162; Original object card, 9/14/35 (CMA Curatorial File)
citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1935– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sieber, Roy. African Textiles and Decorative Arts. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1972. P. 137. page number: P. 137. url: Cleveland Museum of Art. “African Textiles and Decorative Arts.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 9 (November 1973). page number: Repr. back cover. url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i25152495 Wixom, William D. “African Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art,” African Arts 10, no. 3 (April 1977): 16-24. page number: Repr. p. 21. url: Sieber, Roy, and Roslyn Adele Walker. African Art in the Cycle of Life. Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. Exhibition catalog. page number: p. 102, cat. no. 53, repr. url: Geary, Christraud M. and Andrea Nicolls. Elmina: Art and Trade on the West African Coast. Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Exhibition catalogue. page number: Repr. p. 8. url: Hudon, François, Line Lamarre, and Michel Vervais. Réalités : Histoire et éducation à La Citoyenneté. Québec : ERP Inc., 2008. page number: Fig. 5.18. url: Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. page number: Reproduced: cat. 19, p. 68 - 69 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. 32, no. 35 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. 39, no. 162 url: Webb, Virginia-Lee, and Walker Evans. Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 22; reproduced: p. 23, fig. 13, p. 68, no. 18. 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 url: Brooklyn Museum. Masterpieces of African Art. Exhibition Dates: October 21, 1954-January 2, 1955. [Brooklyn]: Brooklyn Museum, 1954. page number: Mentioned: p. 40 url: Cole, Herbert M., and Doran H. Ross. The Arts of Ghana. Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, University of California, 1977. page number: Mentioned: p. 153; reproduced: p. 155, fig. 324 url: Robbins, Warren M., and Nancy Ingram Nooter. African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 202-203, fig. 515 url: Walker, Roslyn A., Martha J. Ehrlich, Christraud M. Geary, M. D. McLeod, and Doran H. Ross. The Power of Gold: Asante Royal Regalia from Ghana. Yale University Press, New Haven and London. Dallas : Dallas Museum of Art, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 101, cat. 58 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1935.310/1935.310_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1935.310/1935.310_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1935.310/1935.310_full.tif