id: 144495
accession number: 1969.2
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.2
updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:23.567000
Buffalo Mask, early to mid-1900s. Africa, West Africa, Burkina Faso, possibly Bwa-style maker. Wood, plant fibers, paint, and iron; overall: 69.8 cm (27 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White 1969.2
title: Buffalo Mask
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creation date: early to mid-1900s
creation date earliest: 1900
creation date latest: 1970
current location: 108A Sub-Saharan
creditline: Gift of Katherine C. White
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culture: Africa, West Africa, Burkina Faso, possibly Bwa-style maker
technique: Wood, plant fibers, paint, and iron
department: African Art
collection: African Art
type: Mask
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measurements: Overall: 69.8 cm (27 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1969
opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).
title: A Cleveland Bestiary
opening date: 1981-10-15T04:00:00
A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA 1968: African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection, cat. no. 31, repr.', 'opening_date': '1968-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA 1970: "Year in Review 1969," CMA Bulletin LVII (Jan., 1970), p. 47, no. 128, repr. p. 41.', 'opening_date': '1970-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA 1981: A Cleveland Bestiary, October 14-December 9, 1981, cat. no. 11, repr. p, 17.', 'opening_date': '1981-10-14T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Katherine C. White [1929-1980], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: at least 1968–1969
footnotes:
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Exhibited at CMA in 1968, African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection; published as fig. 31
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1969–
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* CMA Bulletin January 1970, figure 128.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Fagg, William. African Tribal Images: the Katherine White Reswick Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 31
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Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1969.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 1 (January 1970): 2–50.
page number: Reproduced: p. 41, fig. 128; mentioned: p. 147
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152307
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. 411
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n431
Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
page number: Mentioned: p. 16, p. 60; Reproduced: p. 17
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Henry John Drewal. African Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection : the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1989.
page number: fig. 17
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: p. 153
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Connell, Timothy C., and Jackson J. Spielvogel. World Art Transparencies. Cincinnati: West Educational Pub, 1998.
page number: Acetate 43
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp.67-8. no. 70; listed: p. 118.
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Donley, Gregory M., "A New Face for African Art", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 42 no. 04, April 2002
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6-7
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2002-04/page/n5
Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: cat. 5, p. 40 - 41
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 43 no. 09, November 2003
page number: Reproduced: cover
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2003-09
Petridis, Constantine. "A New Installation for African Art in Cleveland." Tribal: the Magaine of Tribal Art. 9 (3) no. 36 (Autumn-Winter 2004): 68-73.
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Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art; London, Scala Publishers Ltd, 2012.
page number: pp. 288-9.
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Basquiat, Jean-Michel, Sam Keller, and Iris Hasler. Basquiat: The Modena Paintings.Berlin : Hatje Cantz ; Riehen/Basel : Fondation Beyeler, 2023.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 35, fig. 2
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IMAGES
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