Woman in Orange Cloth

Etiyé Dimma Poulsen, Ethiopian, born 1968

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2006

Ceramic, mixed media

Overall: 21 1/4 × 3 15/16 × 3 7/16 in. (54 × 10 × 8.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Charles J. and Opel Zimmerman 1923 Fund

© Etiyé Dimma Poulsen

2006.22

Geography

Place Made: Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Africa

Period

21st century

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Sculpture

Africa

Not on view

Inscriptions

Initialled (?), incised in piece, rear bottom edge: D/S

Exhibition History

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.

Etiye Dimma Poulsen: Working Around Archetpes - New Sculptures, Skoto Gallery, New York, March 9-April 15, 2006.

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.

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.

Publication History

Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 319, plate 102.

Provenance

The artist; Skoto Gallery, New York, New York; March 2006; sold to present collection, April 2006.

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