id: 155862 accession number: 1991.165 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.165 updated: 2024-09-11 23:05:02.915000 Headdress (Ẹpa) called Atófòjọ́wò (“You Can Look at It for a Whole Day”), 1920–30. Moshood Olusomo Bámigbóyè (Nigerian, c. 1885–1975). Wood and paint; overall: 134 x 57.9 x 62.5 cm (52 3/4 x 22 13/16 x 24 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund and Gift of Mary Price 1991.165 title: Headdress (Ẹpa) called Atófòjọ́wò (“You Can Look at It for a Whole Day”) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1920–30 creation date earliest: 1920 creation date latest: 1930 current location: 001A ArtLens Exhibition creditline: John L. Severance Fund and Gift of Mary Price copyright: --- culture: Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yorùbá peoples technique: Wood and paint department: African Art collection: African Art type: Mask find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Moshood Olusomo Bámigbóyè (Nigerian, c. 1885–1975) - artist Nigerian wood-carver. He carved traditional objects (houseposts, bowls, stools) as well as innovative ones (coffee tables, bread boards) in a relatively plain style. He also carved masks, among the finest being an Epa mask (London, BM) on which two women are surrounded by smaller male figures atop the mask superstructure. This piece adheres to Yoruba conventions in that the figures are idealized, static, stoically poised, emotionless and non-narrative, though they display the fullness of life. Large in size, symmetrical and conventionally proportioned, his pieces have relatively smooth surfaces. Wall plaques with narrative scenes, stools, knives, intricate patterning and details are among his more ‘modern’ works. He taught carving in Omu.

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https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T096558 --- measurements: Overall: 134 x 57.9 x 62.5 cm (52 3/4 x 22 13/16 x 24 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: African Master Carvers: Known and Famous opening date: 2017-03-26T04:00:00 African Master Carvers: Known and Famous. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 16, 2017). title: Bámgbóyè: A Twentieth-Century Yorùbá Sculptor opening date: 2022-09-09T04:00:00 Bámgbóyè: A Twentieth-Century Yorùbá Sculptor. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (organizer) (September 9, 2022-January 8, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Masterpieces of African Art. The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (October 21, 1954-January 2, 1955).', 'opening_date': '1954-10-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': '', 'opening_date': None} --- PROVENANCE Leon Underwood (also known as George Claude Leon Underwood, 1890–1970) by purchase from the artist Moshood Olusomo Bámigbóyè date: 1945–? footnotes: *
"Bamboya [sic, Bamigboye], the Yoruba carver of Omu, Ilorin, province of Nigeria, who carved the Elepa [sic, Epa] mask in Plate 27...He produced this mask and many other fine works over thirty years ago when he did not know he was an artist." "In possession of the author." Underwood, Leon. 1948. Masks of West Africa. London: A. Tiranti. Plate 27, pp. 13–16, 36–37, 46
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Green, James, Oluseye Adesola, Anne Turner Gunnison, Efeoghene Igor, William R. Rea, Cathy Silverman, and Yale University Art Gallery. 2022. Bámigbóyè : A Master Sculptor of the YorùBá Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery. p. 115
citations: Vincent Price date: By at least 1958 footnotes: *
Reproduced in 1958 Fagg/Elisofon book The Sculpture of Africa as figure 144.
citations: Mary Grant Price date: ?–1991 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH by gift and partial purchase from R. M. Light and Co., Inc. date: 1991– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Green, James, et al. Bámigbóyè : A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition. Yale University Art Gallery, 2022. page number: p. 115-118 url: Underwood, Leon. 1948. Masks of West Africa. London: A. Tiranti. page number: Plate 27, pp. 13–16, 36–37, 46 url: John Pemberton III et. al. The Horse Rider in African Art (London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2011), pg. 186. page number: url: The Brooklyn Museum. Masterpieces of African Art. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, 1954. page number: P. 102 url: Robbins, Warren M. African Art in American Collections: L'art Africain Dans Les Collections Americaines. New York: F.A. Praeger, 1966 page number: P. 164 url: Trowell, Margaret, Hans Nevermann, and Hans Nevermann. African and Oceanic Art. Panorama of World Art. New York: H.N. Abrams. 1968 page number: Reproduced: p. 87 url: "Front Matter." African Arts 6, no. 1 (Autumn 1972): page number: Reproduced: inner front cover. url: https://www-jstor-org.ingallslibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/3334630?refreqid=excelsior%3A2adec6cc6f566dee14d5bd2188c0cdda&seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents Turner, Evan H. "Selected 1991 Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 2 (1992): 63-83. page number: Mentioned: p. 65, 83; Reproduced: p. 75 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161350 Chemeche, George, and John Pemberton. The Horse Rider in African Art. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 2011. page number: Reproduced: p. 106 url: Lawal, Babatunde. Yoruba. Milan, Italy: 5 Continents, 2012. page number: Reproduced: pl. 54 url: Petridis, Constantine. "African Master Carvers: Nine sculptors of traditional African artworks rise from anonymity.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 57, no. 2 (March/April 2017): 32-33. page number: Reproduced: P. 32; Mentioned: P. 32, 33. url: Heinrich, Will. "More Than 90 Art Shows and Exhibitions to See This Fall,"The New York Times, September 8, 2022. Reproduced. page number: url: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/arts/design/art-design-fall-season.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhkQVUbCybcR8Q86RGLnvnAxvs1nGO7ICWOSDlEiuocB4zF4ErEfq1lIdsv2jDRDPlwDIgSft0ghOlOIx4qDACyvpqPnJlCLXxo-IjiBjxzgcvHBvVl-Ge6K2PjIrs6mOGy5x7Wa2G5UaCPwmRhcFg-2eZtfFGr3HwJx63XQKUiipQlg6BXVt0tTiwAZSKKo_DjFx5_Xd2GZRvf4QM3MPpLDXCRxZXPruJdL3gBTA7OX3h94m0j6NpDOd1xPK33LRYoeseWkqy5T4AnMKeEg6ayWE_1HFYa Green, James. "Islamic Influence in the Work of Yorùbá Sculptor Bámigbóyè," ÌMỌ̀ DÁRA, October 16, 2022. page number: Reproduced url: https://www.imodara.com/magazine/islamic-influence-bamigboye/ Elisofon, Eliot, and William Fagg. The Sculpture of Africa: 405 Photographs. London: Thames & Hudson, 1958. page number: p. 114–115, fig. 144 url: --- IMAGES