Yoruba Kneeling Female Figure Holding a Bowl
Lamidi Fakeye, Yoruba / Nigerian, 1928 - 2009
early 1960s
Wood
Overall: 12 5/8 × 2 3/4 × 4 in. (32 × 7 × 10.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ginna Fleming and Murray Frank
2013.98.2
Geography
Place Made: Nigeria, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Africa
On view
Inscriptions
Signed, carved, on bottom of base: L.O. FAKEYE
Course History
ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2014
ARTH 17.2, AAAS 80.5, Twentieth-Century African Art , Ugochukwu Smooth Nzwei, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, and Northeast Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 22, 2023–May 25, 2024.
Inventory: New Works and Conversations around African Art, Friends Gallery/Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 16-March 13, 2016.
Provenance
The artist, Ibandan, Nigeria; sold to Ginna Fleming and Murray Frank (Peace Corps Volunteers),1962-1964; given to present collection, 2013.
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