id: 136656 accession number: 1961.198 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.198 updated: 2023-12-05 11:33:51.520000 Nursing Woman with Child, 1800s-1900s. Africa, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, reportedly Korhogo area, Senufo-style carver. Wood and organic material; overall: 63.6 cm (25 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund 1961.198 title: Nursing Woman with Child title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1800s-1900s creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1961 current location: creditline: James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: Africa, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, reportedly Korhogo area, Senufo-style carver technique: Wood and organic material department: African Art collection: African Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 63.6 cm (25 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1961) opening date: 1961-11-01T05:00:00 Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). 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: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: Images of the Mind opening date: 1987-07-07T04:00:00 Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987). title: Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa opening date: 2015-02-22T00:00:00 Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-May 31, 2015); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (June 28-September 27, 2015); Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (November 28, 2015-March 6, 2016). 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. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Mathias Komor, New York, NY, 1961, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1961 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1961- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review 1961." In Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 9 (November 1961): 248, cat. 24; repr. p. 233. page number: p.248, cat. 24; repr. p. 233 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142473 The Nelson Gallery of Art. The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-literate People of the World. Kansas City, MO: The Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum, 1962, 22, no. 27. page number: Mentioned: p. 22, cat. no. 27 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966, 302. 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. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969, 302. page number: Reproduced: p. 302 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n326 Elizabeth Broudy and Elizabeth Youngblood. Icon and Symbol: The Cult of the Ancestor in African Art. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Cranbrook Academy of Art & Museum, 1975, cat. 9. page number: cat. no. 9 url: Weisberg, Gabriel P. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975, cat. no. 54. page number: cat. no. 54 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978, 410. page number: Reproduced: p. 410 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n430 Drewal, Henry John. African Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1989, fig. 21. page number: fig. 21 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991, 149. page number: p.149 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n163 Gibbons, Martha B., and Jo Zuppan. Interpretations: Sixty-five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991, 42. page number: p. 42 url: Petridis, Constantine. South of the Sahara: Selected Works of African Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003, 47, color plate 8. page number: p.47, color plate 8. url: Petridis, Constantine. "A New Installation for African Art in Cleveland." In Tribal 3, no. 36 (Autumn/Winter 2004): 68-73. page number: p.68-73 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 29 url: Gagliardi, Susan Elizabeth, and Constantijn Petridis. Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: p. 146, fig. 97 url: Gagliardi, Susan Elizabeth and Constantine Petridis. "Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa." In African Arts 48, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 6-23. page number: Reproduced: p. 8, fig. 2. url: Cyvoct, Colin. “L'Afrique des Senufo au Musee Fabre.” In L'Œil 687 (Janvier 2016): 90. page number: Reproduced: p. 90 url: https://www.lejournaldesarts.fr/expositions/lafrique-des-senufo-au-musee-fabre-127856 Geoffroy-Schneiter, Bérénice. “L'Art Senufo au Sommet.” L'Estampille/L'Objet d'Art 520 (Février 2016): 6. page number: Reproduced: p. 6. url: https://www.estampille-objetdart.com/numero-520/lyon-musees-tissus-arts-decoratifs-peril/l-art-senufo-sommet.40220.php Cole, Herbert M. Maternity: Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa.
Brussels: Mercatorfonds, 2017. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 145-146 url: Liebert, Emily, Nadiah Fellah, and William Griswold. Picturing Motherhood Now. Cleveland : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021 page number: Mentioned & Reproduced: P. 10-11, fig. 3 url: 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. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.198/1961.198_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.198/1961.198_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.198/1961.198_full.tif