id:			160627
accession number:	1998.4
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.4
updated:		2022-01-04 17:25:03.633000

Untitled B, 1997. Magdalene Odundo (British, 1950-). Terracotta; overall: 45.3 x 27.4 x 28.1 cm (17 13/16 x 10 13/16 x 11 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1998.4

title:				Untitled B
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creation date:			1997
creation date earliest:		1997
creation date latest:		1997
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	England, born in Kenya, 20th century
technique:	terracotta
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Vessels
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CREATORS

* Magdalene Odundo (British, 1950-)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 45.3 x 27.4 x 28.1 cm (17 13/16 x 10 13/16 x 11 1/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Incised in bottom of pot: ODUNDO/1997
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, December 26, 1997-January 24, 1998.

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PROVENANCE

	(Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Santa Barbara, CA)
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wall description: 
Odundo’s pots--constructed in a coiling technique that is thousands of years old--comprise fluid forms that are influenced by traditional pottery from Kenya, Nigeria, and the American Southwest. They may resemble containers, but none is meant to be used as such. This thin-walled, gracefully balanced example reflects the torso of a pregnant woman and is the most recent contemporary African work in the museum’s collection. It is juxtaposed here with the oldest object in the African collection, a fragment of a figure in the same medium from Nigeria’s Nok region.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Painting by 18th-century Italian Master Gaetano Gandolfi among Works Added to CMA Collection,” March 24, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4109

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