Hovor
El Anatsui, Ghanaian, born 1944
2003
Aluminum bottle tops and copper wire
Overall: 240 × 216 in. (609.6 × 548.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through gifts from the Lathrop Fellows
© El Anatsui
2005.42
Geography
Place Made: Ghana, Western Africa, Africa
Period
21st century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
Africa
Not on view
Exhibition History
Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, England
El Anatsui: GAWU, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 6-March 4, 2007; The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, April 22-August 29, 2007.
Gallery Oldham, Oldham, England
Global Contemporary: A Focus on Africa; Dorothy and Churchill Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-December 8, 2019.
Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 26,2009-March 15, 2010.
Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA
The October Gallery, London, England
Virtual Space for Dialogue, 2017, Self (Hood), Alison Guh, Class of 2017, Mellon Special Prjects Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. https://www.aguh.vsfd.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/
Publication History
Gawu: El Anatsui. Llandudno : Oriel Mostyn Gallery, about 2003.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p.130, no.104.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 201, ill. plate no. 132.
Provenance
October Gallery, London, England; sold to present collection, 2005.
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