Tear Drop, from the Tear Drop Series
Magdalene Odundo, Kenyan, born 1950
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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