id: 159837 accession number: 1997.149 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.149 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:32.733000 Mother and Child Figure, late 1800s–early 1900s. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo (most likely), Cabinda, or Republic of the Congo, probably Yombe-style maker. Wood and paint; overall: 64.7 cm (25 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1997.149 title: Mother and Child Figure title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1800s–early 1900s creation date earliest: 1875 creation date latest: 1925 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo (most likely), Cabinda, or Republic of the Congo, probably Yombe-style maker technique: Wood and paint department: African Art collection: African Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 64.7 cm (25 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art opening date: 2020-11-01T04:00:00 Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1, 2020-March 14, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "New York, NY, The African-American Institute: Masterpieces of the People's Republic of the Congo, 1980, catalogue.", 'opening_date': '1980-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Academic Study, The Department of Primitive Art, September 1984-October 1985.', 'opening_date': '1984-09-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art: The Mother and Child in African Sculpture, December 1985-June 1986. catalogue', 'opening_date': '1985-12-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Collection F. Burniaux, Dinant, Belgium date: before 1930-1980 footnotes: citations: Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Kitnick date: after 1980-? footnotes: citations: Private Collection date: after 1980-? footnotes: citations: (Anthony Slater-Ralph, Santa Barbara, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1997 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1997- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major African Sculpture, Recent Mark Tansey Painting, and Other Works of Art Enter CMA Collection,” September 16, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4152 Young-Sanchez, Margaret, "African Maternity", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 38 no. 02, February page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p.8-9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1998-02/page/n7 Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. page number: Reproduced: cat. 41, p. 112 - 113 url: Cole, Herbert M. Maternity: Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa.
Brussels : Mercatorfonds, 2017 page number: Mentioned: p. 242; reproduced: p. 244, fig. 216 url: Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Second Careers : Two Tributaries in African Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019 page number: Reproduced: p. 31, fig. 20; p. 61, pl. 7; mentioned: p. 22, 32. url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1090438741 Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Second Careers : Two Tributaries in African Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019 page number: Reproduced: p. 31, fig. 20; p. 61, pl. 7; mentioned: p. 22, 32. url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1090438741 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.149/1997.149_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.149/1997.149_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.149/1997.149_full.tif