id: 129836 accession number: 1952.265 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.265 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:25.282000 Pendant: Crocodile, 1930 or earlier. Africa, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, probably Baule-style goldsmith. Gold; overall: 4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1952.265 title: Pendant: Crocodile title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1930 or earlier creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1930 current location: 108C Akan & Yoruba creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Africa, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, probably Baule-style goldsmith technique: Gold department: African Art collection: African Art type: Jewelry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Baule: African Art/Western Eyes opening date: 1997-08-30T00:00:00 Baule: African Art/Western Eyes. Yale University Art Gallery (organizer) (August 30, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Art Institute of Chicago (February 14-May 10, 1998). title: Baule: African Art/Western Eyes opening date: 1998-09-11T00:00:00 Baule: African Art/Western Eyes. Museum for African Art, NY (September 11, 1998-January 3, 1999); National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC (February 9-May 16, 1999). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'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': 'New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 8/30/97 - 1/4/98. Art Institute of Chicago, 2/14/98 - 5/19/98. NY: The Museum for African Art, 9/11/98 - 1/3/99. Washington, DC: National Museum for African Art, 2/9/99 - 5/16/99, Baule: African Art: Western Eyes. color repr. p. 201.', 'opening_date': '1997-08-30T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Tristan Tzara by at least 1935 date: by at least 1935 footnotes: citations: Nasli Heeramaneck, NY until 1952 date: footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art by purchase, 1952 date: 1952 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Radin, Paul, and James Johnson Sweeney. African Folktales & Sculpture. New York: Pantheon Books, 1952. page number: Mentioned: p. 346; Reproduced: pl. 105 url: Brooklyn Museum. Masterpieces of African Art. Exhibition Dates: October 21, 1954-January 2, 1955. [Brooklyn]: Brooklyn Museum, 1954. page number: Mentioned: p. 46; Reproduced: no. 125 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. 389 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n72 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. 91, no. 86 url: Sweeney, James Johnson. African Sculpture. [Princeton, N.J.]: Princeton University Press, 1970. page number: Mentioned: p. 189; Reproduced: pl. 105 url: Vogel, Susan Mullin. Baule: African Art, Western Eyes. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1997. page number: Mentioned: p. 299; Reproduced: p. 201 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, no. 13 url: Robbins, Warren M. African sculpture. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub, 2005. page number: Reproduced: p. 91, no. 86 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.265/1952.265_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.265/1952.265_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.265/1952.265_full.tif