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Inventory: New Works and Conversations around African Art in the Hood's Friends and Cheatham Galleries. Photo by Alison Palizzolo.

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Inventory

Evolving Perspectives

January 26, 2013, through April 13, 2014
Highlights from the African Art Collection at the Hood Museum of Art

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Location

Exhibition, Gutman

About

Museum collections usually form in one of two ways—either by gifts or through curatorial purchases.  At a college or university museum, however, faculty members can also influence purchases of works of art and material culture that reflect their research and teaching interests.

This installation of African art from the Hood Museum of Art presents a selection of objects that marks the trajectory of the collection's development and pays tribute to some of the people who shaped it. From the son of an early Dartmouth president to a professor in Dartmouth's anthropology department; from donors whose love of African art is reflected in the quality of the works they gifted to three curators who acquired memorable and important works during their tenures—all have contributed the Hood's mission to teach Dartmouth undergraduates and visitors of all ages about the diverse and rich art of the many cultures of this continent.

This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art and was generously supported by the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Hall Fund. We would like to thank former curator Barbara Thompson for her article "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," published in 2004 in the journal African Arts, on which this exhibition is based.

Exhibition Curator

Katherine W. Hart

Exhibition Citation

This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art and was generously supported by the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Hall Fund. We would like to thank former curator Barbara Thompson for her article "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," published in 2004 in the journal African Arts, on which this exhibition is based.

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Related Exhibitions

Eric van Hove: The Craft of Art

Inventory: New Works and Conversations around African Art 

The Art of Weapons: Selections from the African Collection

Made in the Middle: Constructing Black Identities across the African Diaspora

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body

Exhibition subject: Africa