Tear Drop, from the Tear Drop Series

Magdalene Odundo, Kenyan, born 1950

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1998

Burnish, oxidized and reduced terracotta

Overall: 19 1/2 × 11 in. (49.5 × 27.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund

© Magdalene Odundo

2008.74.1

Geography

Place Made: Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Vessel

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Course History

WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014

Studio Art 77.01, Senior Seminar II, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2023

Studio Art 77.02, Senior Seminar II, Jen Caine, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-July 6, 2014.

InSight: Contemporary Sensory Works, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, November 5, 2014-January 4, 2015.

Magdalene Odundo, Ceramic Work and Drawings, Artist-in-Residence, Fall 2008, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 30-December 7, 2008.

Publication History

Magdalene Odundo, Ceramic Work and Drawings, Artist-in-Residence, Fall 2008, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, ill. p. 9 [gallery installation].

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.129, Fig.1.

Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 91, no. 80

Provenance

The artist, Chawton, Alton, United Kingdom; sold to present collection, 2008.

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