id:			160627
accession number:	1998.4
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.4
updated:		2025-05-10 11:04:34.596000

Untitled B, 1997. Magdalene Odundo (British, born Nairobi, Kenya, 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
current location:		108A Sub-Saharan
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, born Nairobi, Kenya, 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

	title:		From the Earth through Her Hands: African Ceramics
	opening date:   2024-09-21T04:00:00
	<i>From the Earth through Her Hands: African Ceramics</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 21, 2024-September 21, 2025).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, December 26, 1997-January 24, 1998.', 'opening_date': '1997-12-26T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Santa Barbara, CA
	date: ?–1998
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art by purchase
	date: 1998–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cooper, Emanuel. Magdalene Odundo (Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Lund Humphries, 2004), p. 82, 119, cat. 115.
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	Petridis, Constantine. South of the Sahara: Selected Works of African Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art; distributed by the University of Washington Press, 2003: 20, fig. 7.
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	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

	Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 7, p. 20
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