id: 148153
accession number: 1975.152
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.152
updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:37.413000
Helmet Mask, early to mid-1900s. Africa, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo-style carver. Wood, upholstery studs, and colorant; overall: 34.9 cm (13 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White 1975.152
title: Helmet Mask
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creation date: early to mid-1900s
creation date earliest: 1900
creation date latest: 1950
current location: 108A Sub-Saharan
creditline: Gift of Katherine C. White
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culture: Africa, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo-style carver
technique: Wood, upholstery studs, and colorant
department: African Art
collection: African Art
type: Mask
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measurements: Overall: 34.9 cm (13 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA 1968: "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection," cat. no. 22, repr.', 'opening_date': '1968-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA 1976: "Year in Review 1975," CMA Bulletin LXIII Feb., 1976), p. 66, no. 29, repr. p. 64', 'opening_date': '1976-02-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (2/22/15-5/31/15) Saint Louis Art Museum (6/28/15/-9/27/15) Musée Fabre, montpellier France (11/28/15-3/6/16) "Senufo: Art Identity in West Africa;', 'opening_date': '2015-02-22T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
J. J. Klejman, New York, NY
date: 1963
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Recorded on an undated info sheet (c. 1969) in curatorial file
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Katherine C. White [1929-1980], Gates Mills, OH, by purchase from the above
date: ?–1975
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* 1966 – 1970 Lived in Gates Mills, OH (articles also mention Bratenahl, OH). Known as
Katherine White Reswick, Katherine C. White (Reswick), Mrs. James B. Reswick
citations:
The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift
date: 1975–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Fagg, William. African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968.
page number: No. 22
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Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (1976): 31–71.
page number: Reproduced: p. 64, no. 29; mentioned: p. 66, no. 29.
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152624
Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: Selected works of African Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: p. 44-45, color plate 7
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Petridis, Constantine. “Buffalo Helmets of Tussian and Siemu Peoples of Burkina Faso.” African Arts 41, no. 3 (2008): 26–43.
page number: Reproduced: p. 35; mentioned: p. 38.
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20447898
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. 30
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Gagliardi, Susan Elizabeth, and Constantijn Petridis. Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa. 2014.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 174-5, fig. 127.
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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: pp. 174-5, fig. 127
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"Art on View: Art and Identity in West Africa." Tribal Art 19, no. 74 (Winter 2014): 70.
page number: Reproduced: p. 70
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Gagliardi, Susan Elizabeth and Constantine Petridis. "Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa." African Arts 48, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 6-23.
page number: Reproduced: p. 15, fig. 11
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