id:			148772
accession number:	1976.29
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.29
updated:		2025-02-09 03:52:42.654000

Figure, possibly early 1400s. Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Sapi-style carver. Soapstone; overall: 23.8 x 11.2 x 12.5 cm (9 3/8 x 4 7/16 x 4 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Lucile Munro in memory of her husband Thomas Munro, Curator of Education from 1931 to 1967 1976.29

title:				Figure
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creation date:			possibly early 1400s
creation date earliest:		1400
creation date latest:		1425
current location:		108A Sub-Saharan
creditline:			Gift of Lucile Munro in memory of her husband Thomas Munro, Curator of Education from 1931 to 1967
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Sapi-style carver
technique:	soapstone
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 23.8 x 11.2 x 12.5 cm (9 3/8 x 4 7/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review, 1976
	opening date:   1977-02-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review, 1976</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).

	title:		African Art:  Permutations of Power
	opening date:   1997-10-13T00:00:00
	<i>African Art:  Permutations of Power</i>. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (organizer) (October 13, 1997-February 1, 1998).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Kansas City, MO:  Nelson Atkins Museum, The Imagination of Primitive Man, 1962 cat. no. 25', 'opening_date': '1962-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Washington, DC:  National Gallery, African Sculpture, cat. no. 3, repr.', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'CMA 1977:  "Year in Review 1976," Bulletin LXIV (February 1977), cat. no. 36, p. 74, repr. p. 72.', 'opening_date': '1977-02-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'International Exhibition Foundation', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'Gainesville, FL: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 10/13/97 - 2/1/98 African Art: Permutations of Power (no catalogue)', 'opening_date': '1997-10-13T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Heim, Paris
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	Heim, Paris; Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Munro
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Fagg, William Buller, International Exhibitions Foundation, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Brooklyn Museum. 1970. <em>African Sculpture; [Loan Exhibition] Circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, 1970</em>. Washington: International Exhibitions Foundation, p. 17, no. 3.
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	Munro, Thomas. Form and Style in the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetic Morphology. Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970, fig. 63.
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>1976 Year in Review</em>. Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland: OH, 1977, no. 2, cat. 36.
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	Drewal, Henry John. African Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1989, fig. 2.
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	Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. 1997. <em>African Art : Permutations of Power</em>. Gainesville, Fla: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, fig. 32.
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	Plass, Margaret. “Above the Salt.” <em>Expedition Magazine</em> 5, no. 3 (May, 1963): 39-41.
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	url:		https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/above-the-salt/

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 410
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n430

	Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. 10, p. 50 - 51
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	William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. <em>The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World</em>. Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 20, cat. no. 25; reproduced: p. 21
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	Robbins, Warren M., and Nancy Ingram Nooter.<em> African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989</em>. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 153, fig. 280
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