Hovor

El Anatsui, Ghanaian, born 1944

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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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